Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...replies the long suffering relative, and their D's and H's. Her own belief is that the young lady in front has been taking rum for a cold and consequently has grown evorish. Slow, heavy, this number can he relied upon to hold her own by sheer onderous weight...
...ointment" [TIME, July 18] have you seen fit to mention our courageous Jew, Charles A. Levine. Like the rest of the prejudiced press you have devoted columns and columns to Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberlin and other Nordic flyers. To Levine you have grudged even the iotas of space required by sheer force of his importance. This looks like discrimina tion to me. Is this discrimination? I think it is! Mr. Levine has fled the unfairness of the newspapers of our country. It has been an added discouragement in the face of already drastic odds against tricky Frenchmen who will not honor...
...journal like TIME, catering to people of some intelligence, to have such a simple, fundamental fact stated correctly, than to parade a lot of French kindergarten phrases, such as "c'est les fraises maudites" "tout Paris," "les dames Ameriquaines" etc.? I am keeping tab on you out of sheer love and hope for your artistic success. (Any damn fool can make money.) Dropped lines seem to be chronic with you now. That kind of "dropsy" is worse than your competitor's edema verbosum. And such crudities as "war boats" and wan dirge" make one suspect that, after...
...merciless person; hundreds of persons have fled for their very lives, to this coun- try, because of the fear with which they held O'Higgins. I do not think there will be any political effect but I do think that sheer fear caused a group to determine to kill him as the only means of safety...
...Elkdom" is the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks?a white men's organization which originated in 1867 among Manhattan entertainers as the Jolly Corks, first for sheer fun, later to do good...