Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes in a telegram: "I have learned with profound relief of your having escaped all injury in the recent attempt upon your life. I extend to you my hearty congratulations...
...enterprise. To Mr. George F. Baker in particular, who after a life of service in American business, has seen fit to give so generously of his personal fortune to the perpetuation of the service of business, the enlargement of its utility, and the improvement of its standards, is due profound appreciation...
...which the following was alleged to be a translation: 'I desire to give homage to His Majesty the King on his 38th birthday. It is my belief that King Alfonso XIII is the wisest, most intelligent and most patriotic monarch in Europe. He is graced with a profound love of his people and with superlative knowledge and statecraft. Spain is indeed fortunate in possessing such a sovereign who had he not been born a King would, nevertheless, have to be considered one of the great statesmen of Europe. It is well-nigh incredible that a man so young should...
...that the spell is broken it is barely possible that the crusade will extend to other jokes that have long outlived their humor. When Pat and Mike and the optimist and the pessimists beloved of last years Seniors, pass into that profound rest which their long services have earned for them. It is conceivable that after-dinner speakers will be more popular, that humorous magazines will actually be funny; and even that class smokers may, become enjoyable. At least one fondly hopes that others will fellow the lead of the Oklahoma...
...glamour, no ecstasy, no high-wrought moment in his tranquil pages. Amid the swirling eddies of pathological novels, sex-exploitation and the so-called literature of unrest, his stories flow placidly on like the streams of his own cheerful countryside. But his disarming simplicity is the vehicle of profound observation. His is the genius that can bring characters to life and make them three-dimensional, with their little prides and prejudices, their faults and virtues, their heads like solid English oak and their hearts of gold...