Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Annela Bailey, the prettier of the two women on the dismissed jury, unburdened herself: "Is it really a fact that the Supreme Court passed on a case exactly like this one, that it was a civil one, and found that a conspiracy did exist? Wouldn't we have looked foolish if we had given a verdict just the opposite of the Supreme Court's!... What do people like us know about such a case as this?" Mrs. Bailey said that Lawyer Martin W. Littleton of the defense looked "slick" to her, and "more like a teddy bear than...
Manhattanites went last week to a fish show, which is quieter than a dog show, prettier than a horse show. At a fish show, small creatures with few desires swim around in their tanks, staring out with gulps of incredulity at the pallid, blurred faces of monsters moving awkwardly in another element...
...contributed, in August, 1924, to the American Mercury, nor is there any evidence that his point of view has shifted since that date. Entitled "Mr. Coolidge," the article began by maintaining that Washington correspondents, awed by the presidential office, eager for presidential esteem, always paint a President "a little prettier than...
...spirit which is the worst enemy of modern American education. It regards the school and the college alike as primarily the strongholds of traditional opinion. He hides under the mask of 'good citizenship". He makes impossible any other educational system than that which trains the students in acceptance, a prettier way of saying that it straight-jackets the intelligence. What then becomes of the Tutorial System, of the Honors course, of Dr. Meiklejohn's college, all of which are in fundamental opposition to such a philosophy? There is no war here between political, or religious, or economic conservatism and radicalism...
Cider flowed free and the biscuits were hard. The music was wild and the crowd wilder. The chaperones were good and their wives "gooder." The decorations were pretty and the girls prettier. The costumes were rare and the dancing was rarer. It really was a good party, if you don't believe it ask someone who went...