Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Here to the windward and astern of Jenny Cushman. Finding herself being overhauled, the Jenny Cushman craftily comes about, pointing across the We're Here's bows. By sea law, the ship on the starboard tack having the right of way, the We're Here should sheer off, but Disko holds his course. In a sequence in which suspense is built with a series of superb effect shots, the We're Here avoids getting cut in half, forces Captain Cushman to veer away. Immediately afterward, with her crew standing by to clew up the foretopsails...
Josephine Johnson's first novel, Now in November, took the 1935 Pulitzer Prize on points, for sheer beauty. Last week she went at the hurdle of her second novel- which for authors is what Becher's Brook is for Grand National riders. Interested bystanders shook their heads over a near-cropper, gave odds that she would not finish in the money, and those who attach more value to performance than style said Author Johnson's Pegasus got his feet all mixed up in metaphors, looked better in a show ring than he did over a fence...
Such was Mr. Matthews' own state of mind that he described this answer as "the only rational remark of the whole astonishing day." To predict the outcome of the war, or even its next phase, had begun to seem to experts sheer folly. According to latest dispatches, this week General Miaja's militia and his International Column were pushing steadily toward Generalissimo Franco's base at Siguenza...
...Willkie in a white wig to declaim: "The duplication of transmission systems and the giving of money from the Federal Treasury to cities to duplicate our distribution systems is undermining the credit of companies in the TVA area . . . destruction . . . inevitable . . . cruel jest." But by this time the sheer momentum of Playwright Arent's show has carried the day, dramatically at least, against Mr. Willkie. Concluding with the injunctions which currently are hamstringing TVA activity, Power closes on a solemn political note when the entire cast shouts: WHAT WILL THE SUPREME COURT...
...shares to such folk as Jack Dempsey, Sally Rand, Jack Pearl (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936). The best toy, Tang Hao of Cavershawm Catawba, was, as usual, a Pekingese, a breed whose courage was demonstrated in Manhattan's Central Park last week when one of them, out of sheer pugnacity, committed suicide by attacking an Irish wolfhound. Other finalists were Torohill Smoky and the best terrier, a pert little wire-haired bitch named Flornell Spicypiece of Halleston...