Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...language such as a dog-musher is supposed to be complete master of. Then, pausing for breath, he said, "And how is it where your way?" Without a moment's hesitation the Bishop, "Just the same as you describe." At the next roadhouse the old-timer was much chagrined when told that he had passed the bishop on the trail and had used unseemly language in the presence of the well-loved churchman...
Life subscription? Sure-if not too much of a lump sum blow for youngsters just getting their sea-legs in business...
...take in five girls abreast. Another is that there is no adequate way of grading sounds so that the singing of the ensemble at the back of he stage will be less sonorous than that of the principals at the footlights. Another is that musical comedies depend for much of their effect on color, and color-production in cinemas has not yet been perfected even as well as sound. Last week three new singing-&-dancing pictures met these difficulties with varying success...
...country by an election for two years. ... I wish to make it quite clear that I am going to stand for no monkeying. It will rest with the two other parties, not with us, whether or not there will be an election within two years. ... I have seen too much of the troubles and upsets to industry, finance and internal developments from unnecessary elections...
...these are new M. P.'s except Major Gwilym George. Megan Lloyd George, though she was far younger when she lived at No. 10 Downing Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey...