Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gressy and Blanche Dayne divide the prize for being old favorites. Patricola sings with a vim and a remarkably clear enunciation; she deserves all the applause given her. Ernest Hall, song writer, played many of his own works and some that were not, in his own entertaining way. For sheer personality Ensign Al Moore and his U. S. Jazz Band were remarkable. "The Bashful Romeo" is the self-explanatory title of a dialogue by Frank Fisher and Eldrie Gilmore which kept the house entirely happy...
...sport writing fraternity recognize their stewardship in respect to the ethics and morals of amateur sport. This may be due to self-consciousness, or sheer ignorance of the sanctity of their calling. Or it may be that damnable attitude which is marked throughout the whole American journalistic profession; refusal to take oneself, or what one is doing too seriously. Which is the reason I presume, why anyone attempting the duties of a physician, a lawyer, a banker, a plumber, or a clergyman, has the firm theory that he could edit a newspaper better than it is being edited, could write...
...been made up partly of the inferior work of famous graduates who fished out of a pigeon-hole their worst performance of the year and sent it along to Lampy; and partly of the ponderous jests of men who were once elected to the staff through their own sheer industry or the editors' inadvertence, and who insist on contributing to graduates' numbers just to remind an astonished public that they once were of the company of wits...
Participation in any college activity requires at least average intelligence: in nine cases out of ten the player "flunks" through sheer laziness. The athlete who breaks training the day before the game has always been subject to the contempt of his follows. But the man who goes on probation deserves just as little commiseration; he injures his team no less...
...last-minute scramble, to make the country pay, in armaments, for its refusal to join the Wilsonian League of Nations, or else, by threats of the ever increasing military and naval debts to be incurred while enjoying "splendid isolation," force the United States to enter the League in sheer desperation...