Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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1) Pointed omission to kneel when all present knelt except himself while King Alfonso XIII was blessed by His Eminence Eustochio Cardinal Ilundain y Esteban, Archbishop of Seville. Edward, conscious that the Church of England is Protestant, stood fumbling nervously with his hat throughout the ceremony.
The Start. Dropping its landing gear to lessen its load, the White Bird skirted the southern coasts of England and Ireland, pointed its nose toward Newfoundland. It had no wireless. It was flying north of the usual steamship lanes. An angry wind from the west was beating in its face...
That was the occasion of Frederic Chopin's first concert. Three years later in Paris, a figure of fashion with white gloves to emphasize his pointed hands, he rode through the Bois de Boulogne in a cabriolet. To late suppers in his rooms, each lady would bring a flower, at...
The CRIMSON is in perfect agreement with the proposals in these first six resolutions. It advocates less restrictive dogma on the part of the club open house system, and believes that the Committee has undertaken the right methods of correcting the situation which now prevails and which is unpopular with...
The exact line of demarcation which separates the scholar from the pedant has never been determined to the satisfaction of any one man, much less an academy. One may always accuse a scholar of being pedantical merely, as Professor Kittredge has pointed out, because his work is uninteresting to the...