Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street-sweeping department in our modern life that is cleaning up controversies over things done, especially relating to mere questions of money, the law is too slow and too expensive. As a street laying-out department that is planning and constructing for the future, the profession is inadequately organized...
Although almost all of the pictures depicting the Sacco-Vanzetti affair merge on caricature, there is more of art than mere clever distortion in these gouaches. When the exhibit appeared at the Downtown Gallery in New York City, many were inclined to dismiss the whole of Shahn's work as comic-strip treatment of more serious topics, yet even the poignancy that speaks from each picture is testimony that there is something more permanent than grim humor here...
Cultured Arabians consider Bagdad's so-called "Arabian Nights" a mere mess of dirty stories of no literary merit. First collected by a Frenchman, they were chaperoned into English literature by Sir Richard Burton, explore-translator who, like many a member of the Explorer's Club, had a taste for zestful tales...
...with Baroness von Richthofen, first another man's wife, then Lawrence's, the tides of his friendships and quarrels, equally didactic and wholehearted. To Lady Ottoline Morrell he wrote: "Today we have a letter from Bertie [Bertrand Russell] : very miserable. He doesn't know why he lives at all: mere obstinacy and pride, he says, keep him alive." Middleton Murry shows curious humility in allowing some of the letters Lawrence wrote him to be published. Lawrence to Murry: "You remember saying, T love you, Lorenzo, but I won't promise not to betray you?' W7ell, you can't betray...
...action as an unfair attempt to discredit the Communist party and other working class organizations. In view of the patent hostility, Mr. Ballam was probably justified in insisting that the Communist party is, by principle, opposed to terrorist activities, and that therefore it cannot be held responsible; but mere reiteration of this dogma will hardly serve to assure intelligent observers that the organization can hold its followers in line...