Word: pliant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...color, properly perfected, is beyond doubt as permanent an addition to the engines of Art as a violin or a paint brush. Great advances have been made in the Clavilux since its first demonstration in Manhattan three years ago; great advances must be made before it will be pliant to the uses of genius...
...weakling in body but with a warrior mind, persuades the windy one he is not worthy of his wife. He speaks of love. The windy one bids the wife choose. She takes the honest Babbitt, the man strong before the world; the man least able to bear loneliness. The pliant poet is the hero of the whole...
...Wilson chooses to select a man whose only assets are a pleasing personality and a pliant will, and who has never done any harm, it is his own affair. No Senate has ever before rejected a Presidential nominee for the Cabinet, and it would be unwise for the present one to do so. For, in selecting Mr. Colby, the President has indicated the kind of man he wants; and if the Senate refuses him this one, there are any number of others of a similar sort that he may nominate. If the President is to be held fully responsible...