Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pondered the cause behind their loss. In the past, Prof. Baker had sought, and been refused, an experimental theatre and other adjuncts of expansion. Had it really been lack of funds that underlay this refusal? Or lack of belief in dramatics as a valid department in undergraduate instruction? Or sheer lack of sensibility...
Florence Mills, who made sheer impudence an explosive factor of success, retains her frantic popularity. She is seconded by Shelton Brooks, Cora Green and Will Vodery's band. But it 'is the chorus that carries the motion...
...glitter died away. It is the tale of an actress who became a grandmother and retired to Virginia. By the last act she is back at the stage door. Charlotte Walker was immoderately miscast in the part. Cyril Keightley did very little as head man. Alan Dale-"Sheer inadequacy and torture...
...party man. This feeling arises, I presume, out of the fact that there are times when I vote and express views out of harmony with supposed, or temporary, party policies. It would be insincere upon my part to apologize for the past. It would be sheer deception to lead you to expect anything different in the future...
...This is an age when romantic adventure is supposed to be dead. Yet, not ten years ago, Thomas E. Lawrence, young Oxford graduate, archeologist and poet, entered Arabia on leave from irksome military duties in Cairo and left that country some years later-the "uncrowned King of Arabia." For sheer romanticism, coupled with history-making events, surrounded by names which moved the whole world not so long ago, the story that Mr. Thomas has written about Arabia and Colonel Lawrence has not been surpassed during the present century...