Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote was 50 (all Republicans) to 34 (all Democrats) ? six less than the necessary two-thirds majority. In executive session behind closed doors, debate had fumed intermittently for more than a fortnight. Senator Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Administration backed the treaty; Senator King, sharp-tongued Mormon from Utah, and his band of Democrats fought it on the grounds that it fails to carry out Woodrow Wilson's plan for Armenian independence, that it does not guarantee protection to Christians and non-Moslems in Turkey,? that it fails to provide recognition by Turkey...
...sharp evening in December, 1888, "The Count" remembers. Into his Pearl Street shop came a rising young barrister for whose pompadour and mustache Manhattan already entertained an admiration that was to grow and grow as the barrister matured and developed a beard. The gentleman was quite excited. He was, he said, to be married in the morning. Carlo Salvator Cicero and no one else must come to his house after breakfast. Mr. Cicero went. He whetted his blade, he whipped his lather, he wielded scissors, comb and brush to achieve the acme of tonsorial impeccability the masterpiece of a career...
...insight-Paris, the Riviera, Washington, D. C., besides Wyoming, Philadelphia and the theatres, studios, dance halls, hotels and philosophers' retreats of Manhattan. There are quaint minutiae-a sneeze in China as the possible origin of a Manhattanite's cold. There is no end of masticable thought and sharp aphorism; that civilization's aim is "to think like an angel but to function like a man"; that sexuality is either splendid or ugly, never funny or pretty, and that a man must contemplate the body of a woman closely and often if he is to preserve an image...
Walter Sherman Gifford, President American Telephone & Telegraph Co., picked up a telephone receiver in the directors' room of his company, in Manhattan, heard a sharp feminine voice say, "Hello, London? Sir Evelyn." A sharper feminine voice replied, "London ready." Said he into his transmitter, "Good morning, Sir. This is Mr. Gifford in New York." Sir George Evelyn Pemberton Murray, Secretary of the General Postoffice of Great Britain, in London, replied, "Good morning, Mr. Gifford. Yes, I can hear you perfectly. Can you hear me?" Reassured, Sir Evelyn said, "Splendid!" Mr. Gifford read a formal statement. There had been...
Recent thaws have left an inch of water on the surface, and unless the mercury takes a sharp drop bfore morning, the game is likely...