Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scope of such a colossal task, the reader never feels lost or bewilderd. The delineation's of the actual characters of the Civil War which Benet draws are superbly real. They glow with the intense fire of humanity and the heat from them makes every word sparkle with the sheer reality that at last a poet, using a medium of great poetry and not prose gone mad, has accomplished an enthralling tale of an always peculiarly fascinating...
...that Mrs. Coolidge had not enjoyed the White House. "They all do," says a perennial White House servant who has seen four First Ladies come and go. But the sheer physical tax is tremendous-long formal receptions; bi-weekly informal receptions (instituted by Mrs. Coolidge); luncheons with the Ladies of the Senate (a carry-over from Second Lady days); posing for photographs; laying cornerstones, visiting hospitals, remembering to send flowers, answering mail. Mrs. Coolidge's mother was sick all last winter, too (and is still abed). The journeys from Washington to Northampton, Mass., were wearing. When she reached Brule...
...Significance. Slighter than the broken bridge at Lima is the thread upon which these, and still more, stories are strung. Seeming irrelevant, their juxtaposition reveals the curious and intricate interweaving of heterogeneous human lives. If a mystical corollary was intended, it is less important than the sheer fortuity which makes bromides say the world is such a small place after...
...thousand feet above Chicago, Jack Cope stepped out the cabin door of his airplane, counted 28 before he pulled the parachute cord, landed buoyantly among a golf foursome. In the 13½ seconds before the parachute opened he had fallen 3,400 feet, a new sheer drop record...
...stricken country villa. Here he was reduced to the boorish society of the pot-house-backgammon and trie trac with butcher and furnace-makers replaced learned converse with the intellectuals of Florence. Though he filled much of his time with wine, women, and oaths, he was forced out of sheer boredom to pore long hours over his beloved Latin-history, comedy, philosophy (translated from the Greek)-and set down his own political philosophy (The Prince, The Discourses), his own broad humor (Mandragola...