Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), has none of the hangdog air that one expects in sequels. Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein. Henry VIII had enough wives to make four screen stars. Elsa Lanchester is the latest to gain stellar fame in Hollywood, having had the way paved for her by Binnie Barnes (There's Always Tomorrow), Merle Oberon (Folies Bergere) and Wendy Barrie...
...higher education has tended toward the other and slower procedure. For example, instead of the older practice of lectures and reading text-books, the law schools began sixty years ago to use the case method of instruction--much slower so far as the bare learning of legal principles by sheer memory is concerned, but much more effective in teaching law students to think. And the system has spread from school to school until it has now been adopted almost everywhere in America...
...Effingham Buckley Morris, senior director (elected 1896) and chairman of the finance committee. Now 78, head of Philadelphia's big Girard Trust Co. and a civic leader of his community, Chairman Morris has been annoyed at the past few Pennsylvania meetings by what he undoubtedly believes to be sheer impudence. Last year the stockholders wanted to know all about salaries. This year they demanded the details of Pennroad Corp., an ill-starred venture into railroad holding companies...
...conventional stagecraft is chiefly the art of illusion, the technique by which an accomplished monologist makes real a panel of wholly imaginative characters is sheer sorcery. At performing the hardest of the theatre's tricks, Monologist Cornelia Otis Skinner is a topnotch sorceress...
...university would be complete endowment, with no gate receipts to worry about, and with coaches occupying positions comparable to those of curricular instructors. If such an endowment could be obtained from some generous alumnus, who wished to give his money for no other purposes, that would be sheer heaven. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that Harvard has such a donor up its sleeve, but in all probability only two alternatives are open: the endowment must be built up from surplus gate receipts, or by means of a concerted drive among the alumni...