Word: sheerest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having thus taken Congress to task for talking about the wrong things, the Senator damned some other topics as irrelevant: "In my view, the talk about the President or any other personage dragging the country into war is the sheerest drivel. The only person on earth who may drag this nation into war is Hitler. . . . His pledged word is not worth a thrip.* He is a fervent believer in the immoral Machiavellian doctrine of the end justifying the means, however vile the end may be. He has repeatedly lied as to his purposes since the deplorable Munich conference...
...remains its guiding spirit as chairman of the executive committee, but on the president falls most of the active N. A. M. work. As part of it, President Hook last week made a speech in Pittsburgh. Said he: "To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot. . . . The business future is currently brighter than for months because there is on the part of Congress a more sympathetic attitude toward business...
...course the charge about the Police Department is buncombe of the sheerest kind. There has never in recent memory been a time when the Police Department was carrying out its daily tasks of protection to life and property with more efficiency, dignity, and restraint, and in the one or two serious disturbances during the administration of Mayor LaGuardia the police have demonstrated the ability to cope with ugly situations in scientific fashion, reducing damage to a minimum. Furthermore, every patrolman on the force knows in his heart that under the Fusion Government the only way to get ahead...
...machine guns by his side, at the Shannon farm shortly after Urschel's release. It was Harvey J. Bailey who escaped from the Dallas jail last Labor Day after forcing his way out with a mysteriously acquired pistol and kidnapping one of his guards. Only by the sheerest luck had the police been able to recapture him the same day at Ardmore, Okla. And it was Bailey's fugitive partner, George ("Machine Gun") Kelly who last week threatened the life of Urschel and other witnesses if they testified at the trial. It was doubtless Kelly who threatened also...
...have the most profound respect for almost all forms of Christianity, or even, of "Religion," though I do not find it necessary to capitalize the last word at every turn like your anonymous correspondent, the inference being that his religion is true and holy, and all the others the sheerest bunk and rubbish. My doxy is all right, and your doxy is a bad 'un, as Carlyle was wont to remark...