Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unmentioned in the official report was the fact that onetime Court Chamberlain General Angelescu, powerful Bratianu appointee, much more potent than "fantastic" Col. Stojka, was also arrested, imprisoned with Fantastic Stojka in the Jilavele military prison...
...winners (for no one of the five major con tenders is likely to gain monopoly in any one region) great profits are in store. There is mail to be carried and the governments as a matter of public policy pay handsomely.* Although none of the lines expect to carry much bulky express for years to come, there are precious diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, egret feathers and in districts where businessmen distrust checks, cash to be carried...
Inanimate objects, too?hand-organs, opera-cloaks, acacia-blossoms?the rare Molnar dramaturgy makes almost articulate. Much is said about the Molnar technique?brilliant, original. In The Play's the Thing the curtain rises on characters discussing the best way to begin a play. In Mima he builds up his climax by repeating a scene three times. In both these plays, in most of Molnar, there are several planes of reality, arranged provocatively and with an eye to permanence...
Eugene S. Kilgore of San Francisco scolded doctors for talking too much about heart disease. Such talk frequently makes people worry about their hearts, and the worry frequently disturbs the heart or circulatory system...
When a U. S. woman buys silk stockings, she frequently purchases some tin along with the silk. How much tin she is buying she cannot know, for there is no standard way of testing silk. But for her protection and the protection of the manufacturer of her stockings, the American Standard Association is considering tin-silk test standardization...