Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of her strip tease the head of an imprisoned prophet. To the severed head, duly served up on a platter, she made more or less violent love. The plot was Oscar Wilde's, but the opera's composer had italicized its gruesomeness with uncanny naturalism. For sheer horror nothing like it had ever been witnessed on the austere Metropolitan's stage. When the performance was over, pale, gibbering bluenoses fumed with indignation. After a dress rehearsal and one public showing, Salome was withdrawn from the Metropolitan's repertoire, remained unperformed there for 27 years...
...sheer good nature he put a girl named Emily Welsh in the family way, and Emily's brother Tip smashed in the side of his head. There was consternation in the poolrooms. No one but Sam could hold the rackets together. At once his generals began quarreling. Just before Sam died in a friend's front parlor Max tried to get the doctor to give him an injection so he could say a few words in the presence of witnesses. Outside on the sidewalk, in the dawn, Art and Perry and Cork stood with shoulders hunched and hands...
Elected Foreign Minister in 1918, Eduard Benes held the job for 17 years largely through sheer ability, for during that time his own political supporters, the Czech National Socialists, were usually the least influential of the major parties. During this time, France and Britain called the European tune from Geneva, League Delegate Benes' logical, forceful arguments were helping them carry many a day, and those nations flatteringly bestowed on him the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
...reservoirs-between navigation, flood control, national defense, agriculture and power-Director Lilienthal tried to make TVA adopt the "byproduct" theory of power development, which would make the power look extremely cheap. "But for the power issue, the TVA dams never would have been built. To deny that is sheer hypocrisy . . . Mr. Lilienthal's byproduct theory is a subterfuge...
...magazines: Esquire, Ballyhoo, Film Fun, Peek, See, Sex Guide, Sheer Folly and 97 others; in Denver, Colo. The agency: a committee headed by Right Reverend Hugh L. McMenamin, rector of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Reason: pictures and advertisements "suggestive of sex." Authority: Colorado law forbids distribution of obscene literature, provides for mandatory fines and jail sentences for violators. Fortnight ago. Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton of Denver appointed the McMenamin committee, instructed his police to enforce any bans it might make. If magazine distributors object to police action, they can sue the police in court...