Word: shade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louise Seeger, mother of Alan Seeger, the poet, who was killed in the war: "I arrived in America from France where my husband and I have been engaged since the war, planting fruit trees and shade trees for the peasants in memory...
...pressure from within gave us "normalcy", a queer word which turns in on itself twice and comes out with a meaning contained in its first four letters. From the same source came a more recent addition to the American vocabulary, the word "humorically" which is seen to have a shade of meaning all its own. A Senator's mind fired by the spell of oratory may reach untold heights, and so from Senator Heflin comes a whole new phrase, "multifarious digniminity", a true stroke of genius...
...SUPREME COURT IN UNITED STATES HISTORY-Charles Warren- Little Brown. The Supreme Court of the United States is probably the most remarkable legal institution in the world. It is something just a shade more than a governing body. It is a sort of super-Senate, defining the conditions under which government functions. Mr. Warren's is the first adequate history of that unique body. He is a distinguished legal scholar. Most of all, as Assistant District Attorney during the Wilson administration, he had an unexcelled opportunity to see the Supreme Court at work and to gain a practical first...
Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen again demonstrated that her tennis is a shade finer than any other woman's in the world when she won the finals of the Mentone tournament from Kathleen McKane, of England...
...final curtain call, but that was not the trag-edy of the piece. The tragic climax came when he was denied the grateful haven of a jail sentence. It was not an inspiring catastrophe. One hardly felt toward Mr. Huckins as toward a Lucifer, shouting defiance from the overheated shade of the Inferno...