Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young man with the true parliamentary manner is Edward Grey." It is the parliamentary manner that permeates his Twenty-Five Years.* Just as Lord Grey† knew how to manage and impress the House of Commons, which was not by the brilliance of his oratory but by his obvious sincerity, so he has managed his material and has created two impressive books, which are matched in their importance only by the conviction they carry...
...respect for the real purpose for which he is in college, even though his academic record may not indicate it. This same average student, therefore, may resent President Lowell's speech as doing injustice to his intentions, even if not to his achievements. But why? To say the obvious, it is because scholastic glory appears to the average undergraduate as an inferior glory, not so brilliant, and intrinsically of less worth, than other glory to which he can aspire. This attitude is unquestionably pernicious, but if remedies are to be sought, they must deal with the causes which underly...
Doubtless the Post was justified in refusing the article before (if it did so) and publishing it now, for from its text it is obvious that Commander Lansdowne was not a professional writer, for his manner is stilted. He is somewhat given to making obvious remarks, and before his death it was impossible to appreciate the last line of the article: "What the morrow may bring forth...
...Enemy. Of all the shrewd artificers of the Theatre there is none in this country superior to Channing Pollock. In The Fool he made a million dollars (for someone) and made a million people weep by employing the obvious emotional devices of religion in a commercial play. He has used the correspondingly obvious emotional devices of war in The Enemy and will probably reap vast rewards. To one practiced in the Theatre or toa layman fastidious in the matter of emotional stimuli, it will sound like the cry of wolf, wolf. And, curiously enough, Mr. Pollock is said to believe...
...medium and a translucent material shape, like an arm, cold and clammy (said one) "as an eel's heel," was seen, measured (against a radium-painted board) and felt. Warned that violence to this "emanation" would seriously injure the entranced medium, none of those present employed the obvious investigatory stratagem of seizing the ghostly arm and calling for lights...