Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play jogs along, one catches oneself thinking of Chaucer and wondering why. Perhaps it is the breathless jostle of bright costume and eager garrulity, the sheer impetuousness of movement as such, the merrily malicious person of our playwright-imp teasing here, pricking there, now poking a goodly joke if the ribs of conscience, now playing hide-and-seek with a smug morality, always exposing to laughter the foibles, the vanities, the littlenessesses of our too human nature...
...Democrats, and slipped into the White House because Theodore Roosevelt was determined to destroy William Howard Taft for the offense of insubordination. He has maintained himself not because of the love and affection in which he is held, but by the politicians of the Democratic Party, but by the sheer power of the most penetrating and dominant intellect ever known in the White House. When a venomous partisanship that could not deal with him on a plane of mental equality succeeded in breaking him down, nervously and physically, the American people suddenly discovered that they were without leadership and that...
...other to a healthy condition of political affairs. Radicalism is generally the advance-guard of progressive movement. Mr. Weaver may be correct in stating that the Radical of today is not the Liberal of tomorrow--that, I take it, as a matter of individual psychology. But it would be sheer nonsense to deny that the radical principles (Radicalism) of today are the liberal principles (Liberalism) of tomorrow. The England that tore its hair at the Lloyd George Budget of 1909 would today accept the like as quite a matter of course...