Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That is why I think the Debating Union is misguided in its choice of a subject, Professor Sprague concluded. "It seems to me evident that if socialism comes, it will come not by revolution but by evolution, and in that case, it belongs in the realm of sheer speculation. Methods of production, the organization of industry, our whole social fabric, will inevitably be affected by new discoveries and inventions, and by the time we have developed to the point where we will be willing to live in a socialist state, socialism may find itself outworn and useless...
...cover without once reminding you that you are a landlubber. For the crew, there is the bo'sun, with the beautiful dancing girls au naturel tatooed on his hairy arm; Kitty McCann, the Cap'n's wife, "half owner and sole boss of the schooner, whose right arm was sheer muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless...
...biggest asset. She dances like a sunbeam, stopping the show, whenever she gets in motion. Her acute low comedy sense almost twists most of her lines into a laugh. Frank Mclntyre, aside from one genuinely funny song about Sing Sing, manages to carry a comedy role by sheer weight. The rest of the company are adequate. The settings and costumes are smart...
...news value of a murder trial is undoubtedly great, but like all great things it can be so overdone as to assume the proportions of sheer imbecility. There is a moron class in every country to which the gruesome and exaggerated details of a murder case provide series of irresistible thrills, calculated to make little gum-chewers swallow their gum in a paroxysm of wide-eyed horror...
...special matinees seemingly so that Eva Le Gallienne may have a good time dying. In the almshouse of a mountain village, she moans and moons through dreams of her mother and of a lover. The big moment comes when she dreams herself into a crystal coffin for the sheer pleasure of expiring in it. A dank, doleful play...