Word: merestly
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...Discussing the nest of acanthus leaves round the fat figure 5 in the corners he writes: "No merest tyro in the draughting-room of a wallpaper plant that catered to the Wisconsin Scandinavian trade would be allowed to combine shapes in this brutal and reckless fashion." The 5 bothers him particularly. He reproduces its black bulk on one page followed for comparison by seven 55 from the fonts of celebrated designers. Overleaf is a little drawing of a fat harridan leaning against the Treasury's figure while a slender nymph stands by a modern 5 of Dwiggins design. Then...
...potent are the merest words of Josef Stalin that his recently published criticism of a magazine article by Red Professor A. G. Slutzky was rumored all over Moscow last week to have driven Professor Slutzky to commit suicide...
Since control of these three most vital departments of government would continue "reserved" to Great Britain, the Prime Minister offered to the First Conference last January and to the Second Conference last week only the merest shadow of independence for India. Plausibly enough he argued that since the Hindu and Moslem delegates to the Second Conference have been unable to agree, even with each other, upon the proportion of Hindu and Moslem representation in the future Indian Parliament, they must all go back to India and keep on trying to thrash out these and other details among themselves...
Queen Mary smiled provingly. Mr. Gandhi was not in "morning dress" as the royal invitation had requested (TIME, Nov. 9) but he was wearing a loincloth wider by a thumb's breadth than usual, and a shawl of homespun. Queen Mary saw nothing unseemly, betrayed the merest flicker of interest as she espied the Mahatma's dangling dollar watch...
...Lord Bessborough stepped Secretary of State Charles Hazlitt Cahan, proffering a massive object. After grasping it for the merest moment, the Governor General handed it back saying...