Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion was a copyright case with a unique twist. In 1932 Pearson and Allen put out their second book, More Merry-Go-Round, which contained, among other things, the statements that Justice James Clark McReynolds was "Apparently . . . both stupid [and] lazy," and that "for a man of his sheer ugliness of disposition he has come far." Also in the book was a sketch of Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills, much of which was lifted from a defunct magazine called The Washingtonian. Pearson had edited The Washingtonian for two issues, and obtained permission from Rixey Smith, author of the Mills piece...
...soup advertisement, the pictures would not have been at Rosenberg's, nor would they have interested any of the people there. Yet if there was one thing these doodles, lozenges, swabs and swishes of bright paint represented to that crowd of connoisseurs and jealous artists, it was sheer technical virtuosity- probably the greatest painting virtuosity in the world...
Colonies. The "theft" of the former German colonies, the Führer said, was "morally wrong" and "sheer madness." "To assume that it was permitted by the Lord God to a few peoples first to take possession of the world by force and then to defend their robbery by moral theories is perhaps comforting and above all easy for the possessors, but it is immaterial and uninteresting and non-binding for the have-nots," Herr Hitler declared. "No people have been born to be have-nots and no people to be haves." Threateningly the Führer added: "It will...
...American Way has nostalgic, exciting, touching moments. But in its sheer emotionalism, it parallels a cinema spectacle, vintage...
Perhaps not by sheer accident the last official opinion of outgoing Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, published last week, tweaked the Jew-baiting nose of Nazi Germany. The State Department had asked the Attorney General to advise whether to deny, on grounds of moral turpitude, a visa to a German Jew who, in order to escape from Germany, had lied about his money to Nazi officials...