Word: sheerest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheerest Flattery. Stevenson's blast certainly demonstrated one thing: Estes is on his mind. Most of last week Stevenson was busy paying Kefauver the sincerest form of flattery. Rolling into Jacksonville on a one-day drive to win friends and influence Florida's May 29 primary, Stevenson stopped off on Main Street, where he popped in and out of half a dozen stores, shaking hands and telling all comers, "I'm Adlai Stevenson, and I need your support." In Kefauver's underdog tone, Adlai solemnly assured newsmen that he faced "an uphill battle" in Florida. (When...
...aide a paper and ordered: "Send this to Gettysburg . . . Seems self-explanatory-but add any necessary comment." A telephone rang. Adams picked it up. "That's right," he said. "Yeah ... Let's try it." He hung up (Adams considers the words hello and goodbye to be the sheerest waste of time). Next, Adams left his office to talk with his secretaries in an adjoining room. He returned, minus his hat and coat, in about ten minutes, sat down, turned to the visitor, and said: "Yeah, go ahead...
NYLON stockings will soon be sheerer. Karl Lieberknecht, Inc. of Reading, Pa., one of the top knitting-machine makers, is producing a new 75-gauge knitter (current highest: 72 gauge) that will turn out the sheerest stockings ever made from 12-denier nylon staple...
...Nonesuch is back in a new, beautifully bound and printed edition, this time not limited, and priced at a more reasonable $35. The New Nonesuch keeps Farjeon's text (he died in 1945), tries for what the designer of both editions, Sir Francis Meynell, calls the "sheerest Shakespeare." Sheer it is, especially in spelling and punctuation...
...cher (Vera Zorina as Jeanne: Philadelphia Orchestra, soloists and choirs conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Columbia. 2 LPs). The burning of St. Joan, told in a magnificent mishmash of symbolism, poetry and high drama. Honegger's score contains movements of surpassing beauty, others of sheerest musical exhibitionism. A brilliant performance...