Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Power. After long debate, despite anxious protests from potent lobbyists, the Committee on Interstate Commerce voted that an inquisitor and four aides should proceed, as urged by Inquisitor Walsh, to explore the character and practices of light, gas and power corporations doing interstate business or controlled by holding corporations in other states. Political as well as financial practices were in Inquisitor Walsh's mind, "to determine whether these have been other Insulls." Many a State's attitude toward the impending Power Probe was voiced by Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, who said: "The people of Ohio will...
...Senator Johnson chosen, he could have quoted Writer Hurst much further with potent effect. She, outstanding "throb" artist in U. S. fiction, at last had a subject which even her clotted vocabulary did not seem to burlesque. Other Hurstian patches on the strike were...
...authority and prestige among news organs supporting the British Liberal Party is the famed Westminster Gazette, to which regularly contributes that patrician journalist, J. Alfred Spender, recently in the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 23). Last week the Westminster Gazette quietly merged with the London Daily News, a more materially potent Liberal daily, which has flourished vastly since Charles Dickens became its first editor, 82 years ago. As the fruit of last week's merger there will shortly appear The Daily News and Westminster Gazette. Survives unmerged, in London, only one Liberal paper, the morning Daily Chronicle...
...deep carpeted downtown offices majestic attorneys reading Justice Proskauer's suggestion went into conference with their consciences. A lawyer is retained to win cases for his clients. Many a potent legal mind has found fame and money in acquittals for clients of whose guilt he must have been morally assured...
...devout but too-refined lady infected with medievalism is married to a rich banker. Finding in his library a copy of Boccaccio's stories made doubly suggestive by "piquant illustrations," she reads them greedily. This, as first act rhetoric has drilled the audience to expect, produces a potent effect on the cool bride; she becomes coy, passionate, kittenish. The dialogue is a rigid translation from the Italian; like the direction and the acting, it is excessively clumsy...