Word: possesed
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The common characteristic is possession of a savoir faire that scarcely ever deserts its owner in the face of any situation and that enables him to act calmly in defiance of whatever visceral sensations he may be experiencing. The average American interprets this savoir faire as snobbery; in reality it...
Benito was quick and energetic to forbid any reprisals on the part of the Fascisti. Troops were confined to barracks and kept in readiness for any emergency; strong posses of police guarded all strategic points; cavalry bivouacked in many piazze of many towns. In Rome and some other large cities...
When the governor martialed his shock troops and the legislature replied by enlisting sheriffs and sheriffs' posses in its behalf, the rest of the country may well have begun to wonder who was and who was not in power in Oklahoma. The question has had a pretty clear answer in...
For four days, in a series of test flights, the Post Office Department conducted a series of transcontinental mail flights. In no case did the aeroplanes carrying mail across the country need more than 30 hours to complete the trip. In one case the trip was made in 26 hours...
As usual at the Copley when there is a situation to be saved, Mr. Cliva saves it. His portrayat of the gentle older brother was so graceful and so real that it gave the play dignity that it really does not posses. Mr. Pape as the tyrannical John Cordways, did...