Word: scatteringly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...OFFICE is not a mere tempest in a tumbler of water, but it is an ambitious ocean of cards and parcels, a veritable whirlwind, and while riding 'THIS WHIRLWIND,' we must 'DIRECT THE STORM.' "WILL YOU BE OUR RAINBOW ? By shopping early and mailing early, scatter our usual seven day storm over a twelve day whirlwind. . . . Let's humanize Christmas." (Signed) W. J. O'CALLAGHAN Postmaster Said critics: "Hail to Dr. O'Callaghan-advertiser, humanizer-a scholar† among Post-masters...
...Phidias. Scholars have hinted that the figure owed its fame to these entertaining adornments, but Roman writers commented on the power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep pagan content, that lived in the head. Here was no irritable Roman Jove, waiting at the least vexation to scatter thunderbolts in all directions like sparklers, but a Grecian gentleman, portentous as a hill, poised serenely as a wave...
...radiate more sunshine to our fellow men and scatter with a spendthrift hand the seeds of kindness and charity...
...guerilla type of warfare indulged in by the rebels has precluded a decisive French victory. The French have naturally been able to scatter the half-savage tribesmen temporarily with modern war implements whenever a battle of any size has been staged...
...protest and protest strongly against such antics on the part of the Prince of Wales as you describe in your issue of Nov. 2. No decent young man dresses himself up in girl's clothes and appears in a farce called The Bathroom Door. There are enough scatter-brained girls who call themselves " vamps" without the Prince making a "Royal Vamp" of himself. I visited England last year and want to say that a great many people in London know him for what he is. Too many Americans think he is a sweet, babyfaced, "innocent," "embarrassed" young man ! That...