Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank had capital funds (resources minus liabilities) of $32,708,000 although since Dec. 31 its deposits had shrunk some $70,000,000. Attorney Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, director of the bank and its counsel, called all the ugly rumors lies, spoke of their "utter baselessness, sheer malignancy." He said Chatham Phenix would prosecute Mr. O'Connell to ''the very limit of the law," was busy seeking other rumormongers. If convicted, Monger O'Connell may face a $1,000 fine or one year in jail...
...days later] we found both at the base of the couloir and it was evident they had been killed at once. The couloir breaks sheer for several hundred metres...
...grave was planted over and over with green flowers. From a height of 5.400 metres it looks out over the Zemu Glacier and behind rise the ruddy sheer walls of Kanchenjunga. At the head we have erected a gigantic cairn...
...ushered into a room almost pitch dark, a room about 60 by 40 feet. The King was in an easy chair far away from the window. ... I found he was not permitted to have a haircut, and I had to shave His Majesty on my knees. It was sheer necessity. ... At the end I was perspiring as freely as though I had been hard at it for four or five hours. When it was over His Majesty said with a smile. 'I imagine you are glad this is over.' And really...
First-night audiences had already been bowled over by the sheer bulk of the production. In the pit was Conductor Cesare Sodero (formerly with La Scala, now opera conductor of NBC) surrounded by an orchestra of 90 men, most of them from the Cleveland Orchestra. Three operators regulated a $25,000 amplification system which used horns six ft. long.* Anne Roselle was Aïda. Paul Althouse, Rhadames, Pasquale Amato was Amonasro. Critics credited them with "signal ability . . . abundant breadth and vigor . . . impressive operatic authority...