Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the U. S. will secure control of most of the St. Lawrence power sites, with no chance for Canada to increase its share to meet future needs. Said one Canadian newspaper: "What Uncle Sam has he holds. Our whole relationship with our big neighbor proves that truism." Radio. "Sheer presumption," declared Arthur 0. Smith, Canadian speaker to a Washington Rotary Club last week, was the U. S. Radio Commission's assignment of a mere handful of radio wavelengths to Canada. The prediction was made that the Canadian Government would soon kick over the U. S. distribution scheme...
Sharp eyes picked out famed newcomers: Illinois's Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, in sheer white; New York's Mrs. Ruth Pratt next to her swart Manhattan colleague, Mr. La Guardia; Florida's Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, resplendent in solid black with a rope of pearls; dark Oscar de Priest, the grey-wooled Negro from Illinois, far in the rear...
Above the general level of discreditable mediocrity and sheer futility of the issue, stands, as his verses have stood elsewhere, Mr. J. R. Agee's rendering of the Horation "Parcius junctas quatiunt fenestras" into first rate English poetry. His lines are at once instinct with poetic feeling and accurate as paraphrase. The stanza overflow is capably handled and the meter admirably suitable. It seems that wherever Mr. Ageo prints his work the level of the periodical is thereby raised, and it is with the pious wish that we mav hear more from him in these transalpine wastes that we conclude...
...colored revue, "Blackbirds" is well into its second year of performance as is "Show Boat". "Hello Daddy" after a bad start is a popular show with Betty Starbuck affording most of the fun: "The Red Robe" and "The New Moon" are the two best romantic musical comedies and for sheer extravagance of costumes nothing can touch Earl Carrol's "Floretta...
...Rickard's rivals. He has never reached the heights, but he has threatened. In signing Dempsey he gained as an asset the most magnetic personality in the fight game today. Dempsey proved as much when he rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell, the title holder, probably against Ray Miller of Chicago−to be held in Detroit, June 6. The Messrs. Dempsey...