Word: obviously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...barely enough body to the play to make the situation created ring entirely true, but this is easily over-looked as are certain confusions arising from the legal turn which is taken in the final act. The constant interplay of the frivolous with the tragic, makes one forget the obvious flaws as the audience is carried from the tittering stage to one of extreme tension...
This was not a coincidence, President Coolidge, seeing what the World and Senator Walsh were doing had demanded from his Attorney General immediate delivery of the opinion he had requested 224 days before. If it was obvious that the World and Senator Walsh had chosen a politically important moment to force the issue, it seemed equally obvious that Attorney General Sargent had meant to delay his unfortunate news until after Election...
From the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., last week came a strange suggestion to the nuns of his diocese. "Don't vote," he said in effect. His reason: the obvious hostile comment upon nuns' voting would be that they were helping to swell the Smith vote total and that the Church was massed for Smith; this he wished to avoid...
Eager for classification, students sought a word which might fit such potent industrialists. They shelved master, titan, king, as painfully obvious. They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure. They hit happily on the brief but sonorous Tycoon...
...amalgamation, did believe he had come to the U. S. to tie up his vast British interests with U. S. enterprise. To newsgatherers, he denied all reports of new I. C. I. deals with Allied Chemical in the U. S., or with the mighty German I. G. Farbenindustrie. Most obvious of remaining possibilities, therefore, was a merger of Mond Nickel with the "biggest" International Nickel Co., owning adjoining properties in the Froude Mines of Ontario...