Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When it was a question of "Sacred Union to Save France" in 1934, the Right lent Tardieu and the Left lent Herriot to do nothing as Ministers of State but lend their prestige to the Doumergue Cabinet. When distracted "Papa" Doumergue decided that the sheer rascality of Paris politics left him no alternative but to retire to his farm, M. Tardieu resigned as Minister of State, announcing, "I retire with Doumergue...
...basis of sheer poundage the New York Sun won hands down last week, its special "Voice of Business" edition running 80 pages. So pressed for filler was the Sun that it included a book-length history, The Making of America, and several of Grover Cleveland's state papers...
...anyone else was to blame (TIME, Dec. 24, 1934). By that time, though, the Man of the Year was fully in the making. He flashed off cables smoking hot with pathos, righteousness, defiance and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger which made front pages throughout Christendom. It was sheer genius for Haile Selassie to deny that Italians used dumdum bullets instead of charging them with that military offense. It was again genius for him to cable out that in Ethiopia the local press had been ordered by the Emperor never to apply discourteous epithets to Benito Mussolini. Finally only genius...
...People so great a humiliation," gloomed the Chicago Tribune. "Nations have exiled their heroes before," boomed the New York Herald Tribune. "They have broken them in misunderstanding or persecuted them with meanness. But when has a nation made life unbearable to one of its most distinguished men through a sheer inability to protect him from its criminals and lunatics and the vast vulgarity of its sensationalists? ... It seems as incredible as it is shocking. . . . The Lindberghs can live with some freedom in England . . . because of the adult public sense of good taste, restraint and respect for individual right and privacies...
...sheer character of Squire Baldwin had by this time covered the stinking piece of fish with a sauce rich and delightful and Made-In-England. Proceeding, the Prime Minister took his stand not upon what he and his Cabinet had done and not upon what they had said, but upon their feelings and intentions and the feelings of public opinion as, after approximately one week's interval, it finally crashed through the skulls of His Majesty's Government. In a fine, even a literary, passage Orator Baldwin cried: "I would like to make this quite clear. Never throughout...