Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dramatized by Dorothy & DuBose Heyward from his novel; produced by Guthrie McClintic) is not another Porgy. It equals Porgy as a document on Negro dialect and folkways, has some exciting, a few touching moments. But if Mamba's Daughters took one step more it would topple over into sheer ten-twent-thirt...
...leaving everybody to guess at it. The sentence, "labor is being babied too much here," is far-fetched and sounds like a description of a maternity ward. Finally, that terrific sentence where you wrote, "If I could get some support I won't stay out of anything," is a sheer unfounded exaggeration: promise me you didn't mean that...
...same can be said for the dazzling collection of esoteric invective Mr. D. Bevan Wyndham Lewis has slung into the Dedication to his matchless excursion into the medieval, Francois Villon. It is sheer artistry, and while the General's list is a mere list, Mr. Lewis' is a stylistic delight...
TIME'S reports of German "pogroms" have a sickeningly familiar ring. The atrocities of "the bully boys" certainly cannot compare in sheer brutality with the torture murders of Negroes in the fine old South and the collection of souvenirs of human skin by degenerate spectators...
Conceivably, nothing could have been worse. Fortunately, the Fair architects had taste in using their natural site. By laying out their timber and plaster buildings as a windowless "walled city," completely enclosing an L-shaped set of avenues and courts, they made a sheer 80-foot bulwark a quarter-of-a-mile long against the trade wind that blows off the Pacific. To keep the wind out at the west entrances, blue-eyed, sandy-haired Architect Ernest Weihe, fussing around with an electric fan, feathers and a cardboard model, devised "wind baffles"-a series of 80-foot vertical slabs placed...