Word: merest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jesus Christ still lives and will continue to live long after those who would crucify him over and over again are nothing but the merest dust...
Then blow, ye critics, blow; A-sailing we will go; The merest hint of a nice blue-print Will drive the foe away...
Behind the slim plot, through long-drawn-out dialogue, Italian Dramatist Pirandello's philosophy of reality struggles to reveal itself. Facts are not reality, are merest illusions of the senses. Fiction of the imaginative mind is the only true reality. Hence the pity of it: a poor girl torn out of her last shred of beauty, revealed even in death, a sordid fact...
...said to be strong, and capable of making considerable trouble for any opposing line. Just how true this statement and others, conflicting and vague, as to the real worth of this year's Nassau eleven, will be answered tomorrow. Meanwhile, it would be folly to attempt more than the merest guess at the result...
...wish to be photographed in fishing garb before leaving for Colorado. Said Mr. Dawes: "If President Coolidge wants to pose for fishing pictures, all right, but I won't." At White Pine Camp the President has not been photographed in actual piscatorial encounter, but his merest fishing experience has been nationally recounted. Mr. Dawes intends to capture trout in the Rocky Mountain streams, unseen, unpublished. Four years come and go, and again sweltering delegates in some hot metropolis cast their state's several votes as a unit for some Democratic Presidential candidate. Again they cast them, again...