Word: sheerest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the nation's news last week, because of two spiders. The Gilmer spider, a bright gold creature three inches in diameter, was discovered in the barn of one Arch Hefner, brother of County Clerk E. W. Hefner. Beneath this spider's dwelling nook, plainly spun in sheerest spiderweb. the Brothers Hefner said they could read the name "Smith...
...Packard, of the largest single bequest since its initial gifts and endowment (two millions and 60 acres of land in South Bethlehem, Pa.) from Asa Packer - a million-dollar engineering laboratory that was to be the world's "finest." The similarity of the names Packer and Packard " was sheerest coincidence but not so the careers behind them. Asa Packer was successively carpenter's apprentice, canal-boat owner, railroad operator, financier and philanthropist. James Ward Packard, the young graduate of the school Asa Packer founded, was successively an employe of an electric company; organizer of his own electric company...
Lady Maud Hoare, wife of Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare, superintended last week the packing of a small week-end bag. Into it went two nightgowns and three sets of undergarments, all of sheerest silk. Then a sheer afternoon gown. Finally a set of especially made featherweight aluminum toilet articles...
There is no crime in paying one hundred dollars to try to be amused at a night-club, but it is ridiculous to agree with Vanity Fair and the New Yorker that it is sophistication to do so. Rather it is the sheerest childishness. It is too bad someone cannot be spanked...
...sheerest sadism prevails throughout typical Balkan police stations. . . . Brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, children and parents: they are flogged by the police before one another's eyes upon the least pretense of obtaining information...