Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imprisoned after an unfair trial in which his sarcasm frightened but antagonized his judges, met death calmly, almost gaily. His illustration showed Socrates reaching for a cup of hemlock with one hand and pointing toward an ungracious sky with the other, while eight of his disciples, in attitudes of profound dejection, surrounded the couch on which he had composed himself for his final and most brilliant argument. A picture which, to an age which worshipped stoicism, had the emotional value of a Crucifixion, it achieved, like most of Painter David's works, immense success when it was first shown...
...profound grew the disquiet of Pope Pius XI last week that in Vatican City he fervently exclaimed...
...Republican Vice President has ever been reelected. This profound historic fact Vice President Curtis has long and silently pondered. Should he try to be original? Or should he announce simultaneously his retirement and his candidacy lor his old Kansas seat in the Senate? Looking for an answer, Charles Curtis, who sits in the Cabinet by presidential courtesy, last week journeyed back to Kansas to canvass. Not until next winter, though, would he announce his plans...
...Directorate of the Fascist party, with regard to the recent controversy originated by the document evidence of open and occult hostility of some sections of Catholic Action, while reaffirming its profound and immutable respect toward the Catholic religion, its head, its ministers and churches, declares in a most explicit manner that the Fascist party has firmly decided not to tolerate those antiFascists so far spared, under any new or old banner whatsoever, under which they may seek shelter...
...great mathematicians (like M. Henri Poincare) who have applied their minds to games of chance know, the typical gambler plays a "system" which is either quite nonsensical or so involved that its basic worthlessness is well concealed by complexities which have an air of being profound. There are three sure ways to win at baccarat: 1) deliberate cheating by sleight of hand in drawing a card; 2) marked cards; and 3) a prepared deck introduced by a confederate croupier into the "shoe" from which cards are drawn. Before the War an Italian gang made a big haul at Monte Carlo...