Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make sense: stated in its most ambitious form, it is to make words make complete sense. Twentieth-Century poets have had a hard time trying to make their 20th-century words make sense, but that was their responsibility. Either they could live up to it, and be poets; or pretend to live up to it, and be poetasters; or ignore it, and be poeticules...
...sighed. He would resort to his perennial remedy for his perennial nostalgia. Tonight he would wander up to the Geographic Institute and see Sacha Guitry in "Perles de la Couronne." He would pretend he was in his little "theatre du quartier." He would sit back in the beguiling darkness and, full of the "light sane joy of life," he would wink knowingly at some bespectacled Radcliffe girl...
...illuminates the classics with insight and imagination while advising the reader to follow his own reason, draw his own conclusions. An honest reader, if he believes that Shakespeare is junk, and can say why, does the cause of great literature less harm than the snobbish or timid who pretend to like writers who really bore them to death...
...long-wave broadcasts from local stations. They laugh at U. S. attempts to play tangos, but are interested in every thing President Roosevelt has to say, while baffled by reports of Presidential fishing trips. Their own commercial radio stations give them entertainment which is almost 100% sponsored, do not pretend to any interest in furnishing free entertainment education. Advertisements are liberally inserted between musical numbers, for a higher fee between the announcement of a piece of music and its performance. South American airtime is sold not so much by hours, as by minutes, seconds. Therefore, when Latin American radio stations...
...help occupy, was presently active in Manchukuo's "General Affairs Bureau." Naturally he was appointed vice-chairman of a Manchukuoan Good Will and Economic Mission of 26 members which recently set out for a tour of Italy, the Vatican City, Germany, Rightist Spain, El Salvador, nations which pretend there is such an independent State as Manchukuo...