Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumors of war-weariness and low morale in China are sheer nonsense," Dr. Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to the United States said yesterday before his speech at the Faculty Club last night. "China is weary in a physical sense, yes we have been fighting for over five and a half years, but morale is as good as it has ever been...
...occultism. Barrel-like old Madame Blavatsky warned him against removing, with his beard, the occult forces which were making a hangar of it. He joined the cabalistic Order of the Golden Dawn and played four-handed chess with Head Cabalist MacGregor Mathers, Mrs. Mathers and a ghost. It was sheer flapdoodle, but the images gave new energy to his verse. And in time this led to A Vision, one of the most astonishing books of the 20th Century, a sort of Irish-Chaldean Mein Kampf of the undermind...
...suggestion that Martin Dies deserved the Nazl's Iron Cross, the PM reporter, noted for his part in exposing native fascist organizations and the spy work of the Axis consulates in America spoke of last Monday's congressional speech by Martin Dies as one example of the "confusion and sheer ignorance" in Congress which is aiding Hitler's offort to neutralize American public opinion...
...sheer entertainment, "Star-Spangled Rhythm" is one of the most satisfying pictures in ages. It is also such wonderful publicity for Paramount that they'll find it difficult to follow up. They've thrown together nearly every important star in the lot, tossed in a few directors to boot, added a line score, and tied it up with an especially slick script. The girl in the next seat did miss Richard Denning, though...
...would be sheer nonsense-ignorant, dangerous nonsense-to talk about grants of full government to many of the dependent territories for some time to come. In these instances it would be like giving a child of ten a latchkey, a bank account and a shotgun...