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Word: merestly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus embellished, the bull is now ready for the espada, or matador; the swordsman, the killer, the hero of the day. It is to this final role that the apprentice aspires. Sometimes, through sheer braggadocio, the merest man may spring to fame overnight by leaping down into an arena if some emergency should arise at this crucial juncture of a fight. That is seldom seen, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toreador | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...visiting New York. Contrasted with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, Mr. Newman says those of the French musicians, Bizet, Debussy, and Ravel, are "thin" and "lightweight". Music, then has weight? Modern developments in music prove that Orpheus was an amateur, and that Mozart and Chopin had the merest smattering of musical structure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POUNDING MUSIC | 11/22/1924 | See Source »

...October and of which Bishop William A. Leonard of Cleveland is President. The attorneys for the heretic cited 20 "assignments in error"-for example that one of the Bishop-Judges was not a lawful member of the Court, that another was not properly notified. But all this is the merest trivia triviarum. The simple truth is that, if ever there was, or is, or shall be a heretic, Bishop Brown is a heretic and knows it. Furthermore, the Bishop, having long since retired and being in fairly comfortable circumstances, cannot be materially injured by being condemned a heretic. Why, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Teasing | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

...staging is distinguished by all the art and artifice of the Belasco brain and workshops. A third act rainstorm renders all the stage rain shed hereabouts as the merest filmy drizzle in comparison. The stars are supported by a large cast in the style to which Belasco stars have been accustomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...main tenets of faith supported by the editor in forming this collection of poetic emanations of the "Comic Idea". First; the poems are to be grouped each according to the musical instrument that best represents its particular note, and there they are classified, ready to satisfy the reader's merest subconscious mood, all the way from Lyre and lute d'amour to saxophone and piccolo. Truly a Herfordian idea. Second, that the total amount of Prose written on the subject of Poetry is vastly in excess of the amount of actual Poetry that has been composed in the same space...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: OLIVER HERFORD CULLS AND CLASSFIES | 11/2/1923 | See Source »

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