Word: perceivees
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Burgeois Germany has crumpled before Grosz's terrible pencil, his contemptuous and exact eye. Frequent victims are bull-necked burghers, drunken women with raddled skin and pendulous breasts, fops with snub noses and muskrat mouths, gaunt marble-jawed soldiers, starving children, slatternmouthed old shrews. All are made contemptible, rarely...
President Whitney, precise in dress and address, confronted the Senators coolly. On his watchchain they could perceive a small gold animal charm which was neither a bull nor a bear, but a pig.* He could perceive that the committee's special attorney, aggressive Claude Raymond Branch of Providence, was...
Many perfumes, especially the heavy or oriental scents, are in themselves mildly anesthetic. They paralyze the olfactory nerves of the user so that she becomes indiscreet in the quantity that she uses, else she cannot perceive any scent at all: while those, unaccustomed to it, forced to endure her propinquity...
"Our tariff policy, however, has been molded, in the main, not by the masses of the voters but by a relatively small number of business leaders. Is it unreasonable to expect these men to perceive that extreme protection practiced by a large creditor nation works very differential from the same...
An Iron Man of former days would be shocked to look into the practice field some afternoon in early October and see the apparently casual way that practice is going on. He would be still more shocked to perceive the evident enjoyment that the players are getting out of the...