Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grace Moore, clowning her way through her annual song recital at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, giggled and gagged, told the audience her accompanist was "scared to death," got him so muddled that Tribune Critic Claudia Cassidy walked out. "I left in sheer commiseration," she wrote. "I don't know what his nerves can stand, but I know my own limitations...
...such spurts. Its classic plot can never be entirely dull, but Playwright Job has made things seem unnecessarily oldfashioned. As sheer melodrama, Thérèse doesn't pump up enough action; otiose characters keep chattering their heads off. It doesn't pack enough suspense: there is no taut atmosphere of guilty tongue-slips and sharp, suspicious glances...
More than at any former conference of World War II and its unpeaceful peace, the negotiators struck attitudes and took extreme positions for the sheer sake of bargaining. Quibbling over details had vastly increased. Molotov won no friends by arguing for an hour and 40 minutes over the wording of a conference communiqué, later issuing his own statement...
...total of 1124 women were accounted for at the close of registration this week, 278 of them newly arrived Freshmen who, by sheer weight of numbers, boosted the total to a new record high...
They were strikes over seniority, over wage cuts caused by the return to peace, over stored-up grievances, real & fancied. One was out of sheer exuberance: when patternmakers picketed a small shop in Detroit, the shop's co-owner marched with them, smilingly picketing the picketers...