Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tries found that something could be done. Maybe there is no one thing that can prevent another war but I do know that if everyone who has any feeling in the matter at all, said what he felt in no uncertain terms -and kept saying it, that the sheer power of public opinion would go far to make war impossible. I am a very profane man. I am not being profane now when I say, 'For Christ's sake, say or do what...
...when no other architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom to top ... a unit without a single dissenting line." Many a disciple of the "International Style" prefers to think of Louis Sullivan as the designer of the Carson Pirie Scott store in the heart of Chicago's Loop. It has a curvilinear corner entrance, great windows...
...prolonged cheering by the Bishop of Durham. "Jews are just as mixed a race as the Germans; they could hardly be more!" cried this Lord Spiritual. "This nonsense about 'race'-as if there were some poison in the ancestry of Judaism which must be guarded against- is sheer hallucination. It is preposterous! . . . We loathe and detest this attitude obtaining in Germany and protest...
...find that the powermen had really surrendered their constitutional rights by filing. Pointedly hinting at the serious liabilities involved if the Act were upheld, SEC wheedled: "No possible ground in reason remains for any company to fail to file a simple notification and registration under these circumstances as a sheer precautionary matter for the protection of its investors...
Abide With Me, which provided Manhattan's most gilded opening of the week, produced a character to challenge Vance for sheer orneriness. He was a psychopathic drunkard called Marsden (Earle Larimore). He did not keep mice in his bedroom but he killed bugs when a boy. He, too, terrified the inhabitants of a gloomy Manhattan mansion. Marsden had been abused by an equally liquorish father when a child, which accounted for the fiendish campaign he put on to terrify his wife (Barbara Robbins) into giving him a son of his own to torture. Since Marsden makes no effort...