Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harm. The best Italian singers are in America. Recent operatic performances at La Scala have been most distinguished, but not out of any plenitude of superlative voices. The glory has rested with the orchestral and ensemble elements of the performances. Toscanini is the world's supreme conductor. By sheer mastery of nuance arid phrase and tone building in the mass he is able to lift an opera to a plane where the qualities of the solo voices count for little...
Paris has it that Lord Curzon had great expectations of the place. It is hoped that if he is cured he will change his attitude to France out of sheer gratitude...
...calf roping; trick and fancy riding for both sexes; steer riding; relay race; and cowgirls' bronk riding are featured. There is certainly nothing on the stage; little in the movies or the prize ring; little in football or polo that can compare with this program in display of sheer force and courage. At bronk riding and steer bull-dogging, contestants are frequently seriously injured, occasionally killed. Tex Austin imports from the West and Southwest steers and broncos selected especially for their lack of amiability. Certain famous bad horses: Mystery, Nose Dive, P. J. Nutt and Peaceful Henry came east...
...than realization that his great-great -great -great -great -great-great- great -great -great -great -great-great-great -great -great - great -great-great-great -great -great -great -great-great- grandparents were a good deal more numerous than the population of the United States? And among them by the sheer force of chance-must have been at least a dozen Hardings, Wilsons, Fords, Rockefellers, potentates, poets, parasites, paragons, pagans, peers, plebeians. It is surely an art to show that George F. Babbitt has the blood of the Caesars in his veins. What is more, it contributes to Mr. Babbitt...
...more pleasant to come across a volume which is not merely a sequel but a sequel to the nth power - the 27th item in a series of books that has sold three million copies already - the continuous, timeless story of the adventures of a typically American family, which for sheer length makes James Joyce's Ulysses seem like a preface. We refer, of course, to the latest segment of the Rover saga - The Rover Boys at Big Bear Lake or The Camps of the Rival Cadets...