Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crumb, passive housewife ; Pearl, "a lovely, listless sister, a too mellow fruit"; Richmiel, sleek and perfumed, "whose body had seemed nine-tenths of her being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down by the sheer gross weight of the Crumbs when Barnaby came. He was the divorced husband of Richmiel, and he came to take from her silken clutch their boy Oliver. It was inevitable that Leda should find in the imaginative nobility of Barnaby a possible release. And it was equally inevitable that Barnaby...
...least it is easy to recognize. Lowell Sherman has it, and makes the most of it by his incomparable technique. He is at present putting over two mediocre plays at once? Morphia and The Masked Woman? by sheer force of his individuality. Jeanne Eagels has it, although she rather strains for it in Eain, and Helen Menken's youthful fire is responsible for a good deal of the thrill in Seventh Heaven...
...form Saturday. In the first game Wakefield was unbeatable, hitting the crock on many shots, and winning 15-9. Wakefield, being far behind in the second game, threw the game, losing 15-9, and, then, lost the next 15-7. Dixon, however, began to tire and Wakefield by sheer hard-hitting evened the games by winning 15-10. In the final game Dixon made the mistake of trying to play Wakefield's forehand and lost...
...more seriously--perhaps for the reason that he is famous but largely because the facts about him have become known. He was born of poor parents, worked his way through school and college, taking three degrees in the process; kept a drug store for fourteen years; and finally, through sheer hard work and force of character, made a career for himself hardly the story of an ignorant quack, or the ordinary doctor...
...struggle has taken the opposite direction. The degree "Master of Business Administration" had been considered not worth the effort to earn. The only approach to a business career was to begin at the beginning and work up. Carnegie and Rockefeller were pointed out as poor boys who, by sheer ability and enthuslasm, had reached the heights of business success. But recently, -especially since the introduction of the "case system" of teaching in the Harvard Business School three years ago,-the regard of business executives for postgraduate training has increased rapidly; and a short time ago an officer...