Word: sheered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend, Victoria Sackville-West) is watched from the age of Queen Elizabeth into a night in 1928. In The Years Virginia Woolf used death and time chiefly by implication, and discarded all experiments. She was able at last, using traditional forms, "to convey her unique sensibility by sheer luminosity of language." And Between The Acts managed (not quite successfully, Mr. Daiches feels) to create an image of the whole past and present of England and resolve its mysteries and disparities in a nameless piece of music: "Was it Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, or nobody famous, but merely a traditional tune...
Resourceful Bishop Noll got the N.C.W.C. to make the fagade of its new headquarters a windowless 90-foot Indiana limestone backdrop for his figure, with a sheer semicircular niche as the actual setting for the statue. Then he arranged for the sculptural competition, offered $3,000 for seven cash prizes, plus a contract with the winner for a 15-foot statue...
...Some of the stories were shrewd psychology, like the one about the Little Rock man who tried to get a job in Manhattan, was asked where he was from, said: "Arkansas. Now laugh, damn you." Others, like the Uncle Fud and Aunt Dudie gags of Cinemactor Bob Burns, were sheer libel and humiliating ridicule. All of them gave Arkansas the shakes...
...years ago used to be in the Prussian Ministry of Justice gave a wry outline of the famous Haushofer geopolitics and observed that Haushofer's most cherished dream-of a Russian-German bloc dominating the Eurasian land mass-had failed; that by sheer luck "America and Asiatic Russia, the greatest continental powers on earth, are united. . . ." What "united" has meant so far, and what it ought to mean if power politics is not to send the freshmen children of last week's freshmen to war again, formed the burden of another professor's plea. In support...
...address you in a state of considerable panic and alarm," wrote Editor Harold Ross of The New Yorker to the Governor of Connecticut. "I write in sheer terror," he concluded. In between was a communication having to do with invasion-not by a foreign enemy, but by New Yorkers. Mr. Ross understood that a park might be laid out near his estate outside Stamford, and what he feared was picnickers from Harlem and The Bronx. He was fearfully against it. PM called Mr. Ross undemocratic. The President of the Borough of The Bronx called him "a grandee," a "socalled editor...