Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night before the inaugural, the 400-year-old city had echoed with jubilant whistles, bells, fireworks. For sheer noise, the celebration far surpassed similar demonstrations in March 1934 when President Roosevelt signed H. R. 8573 to free the Islands; or in March 1935 when he squiggled his approval on the work of the Philippine constitutional convention. But for all the merrymaking, an air of uneasiness and tension was marked by correspondents. "Doubts and forebodings" were noted among the attending masses by the New York Times's representative. The Herald Tribune's informant caught "a grim note of realism...
Outstripped for sheer bulk only by cinema extravaganza or the Big Top itself, Jumbo is a megalomaniac medley of musicomedy and circus, with the circus gaining a shade the advantage. In point of fact, however, Producer Rose was presenting a show not intrinsically different from the sort of production which made the old Hippodrome world-famed. What justified Jumbo's extravagant ballyhoo was the fact that Mr. Rose has added all the mechanical and artistic improvements which the U. S. Theatre has evolved in the 15 years since the old Hippodrome ceased to function. Where the old Hippodrome shows...
Thus Adolf Hitler, with the crushing kudos of sheer Might, may repress the hitherto irrepressible Winston Churchill. Now bent on figuring in the Story of Mankind as a kind, gentle figure, the Realmleader is currently being snapped by Nazi cameramen in poses which approximate those of the U. S. baby-kissing politician...
...brightest boys ever graduated from New York City's Public School No. 44, has brooked very few failures in his 34 years. As his biographer, Alva Johnston, has pointed out. Rose has become one of the shrewdest characters in the cut-throat life of the metropolis by sheer quickness of thinking. He won grade-school medals for sprinting by learning to jump the starter's gun without detection. Later Rose's instinct for what pleases the masses made him one of the most successful song writers of the times, turning out the words for such tunes...
...Having boldly simplified registration statements for established corporations, SEC was still bothered by the sheer bulk of offering prospectuses, which, legally, are condensed registration statements. Even with generous interpretations of the law, a 35-page circular seems to be about the minimum for a big company. Hence last spring SEC evolved rules & regulations permitting the use of "newspaper" prospectuses, which are condensed offering prospectuses...