Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smooth. "Another striking thing is the prose style of the advertisements, an extraordinary mixture of sheer lushness with clipped and sometimes very expensive technical jargon. Words like suave-mannered, custom-finished, contour-conforming, mitt-back, innersole, backdip, midriff, swoosh, swash, curvaceous, slenderize and pet-smooth are flung about with evident full expectation that the reader will understand them at a glance...
...comparison, there is sufficient sporting activity all there is sufficient sporting activity all year round, and ample interest in all of them for the problem to be less crucial, but even Manhattan dailies, especially the tabloids, do not fall innocent of the charge. Nevertheless, it is surprising to find sheer hearsay and blatant speculation in Boston's so-called "family papers," the dailies which find their way into most living rooms, clubs, and even Harvard dining halls...
...over, agency men could only weakly mumble that Gimbels is not completely blameless either. Latest sample of Gimbels' "overexcited, overeager, overhappy" copy: "Nothing but sweet-as-Pètit-Suisse dreams could come of time spent in a gown and jacket like this. Princess Pat's rayon sheer gown is diaphanous as wisps of clouds floating over a pale June moon...
Perhaps Reader Williams' cats are so undernourished they don't have the stamina to get the best of a rat, but since Esso Junior is seemingly well provided for he would exercise his muscles on large, fat rats for the sheer pleasure...
...blow up, and he did it handsomely. In a letter that would fire an oyster, he told Krug: "Your attention was again directed . . . to the brutal, 54-hour schedule of men laboring in the bowels of the earth. . . . You cavalierly now propose a 60-day freeze. . . . Your proposal ... is sheer folly and empty platitude. . . . You now, at the last hour of the last day yield to the blandishments and soothing siren voice of the operators and seek to place the United Mine Workers of America between Scylla and Charybdis. This course, we refuse to follow...