Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: ANENT COL. VISKNISKKl'S APOPLECTIC DENIAL OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR TOWEL CURTAILMENT AT PHILADELPHIA EVENING LEDGER, IT MAY HAVE BEEN SHEER COINCIDENCE BUT SHORTLY AFTER THE COLONEL WENT TO THE NEW YORK JOURNAL IN 1930 . . . THE CITY ROOM WASHROOM WAS TRANSFORMED. LIQUID SOAP DISPENSERS WERE RIPPED OUT OF THE WASHBASINS, AND RAGGED CHUNKS OF DIRTY BROWN LAUNDRY SOAP LEFT IN THEIR PLACES. THE CLOTH HAND TOWEL MACHINES WERE WRENCHED FROM THE WALLS. AND SPIKES WERE DRIVEN ON WHICH WERE HOOKED TORN BATCHES OF COARSE BROWN WRAPPING PAPER FOR TOWELS. THE LIGHT WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE CEILING...
...still, we'd hate to see Mr. Conant lose his common touch in this sudden access of fame. It is understandable that a Harvard president must look to his wardrobe, but also let him keep up on his mountaineering. For sheer refreshment, Calvin Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet is nothing to the sight of Mr. Conant on a mountain top, coatless, hatless, and unkempt. And some day, if the Fates are kind, we may catch a glimpse of him lounging along Quincy St., in a shabby tweed jacket, and trousers breaking slightly around the knee...
...sheer magnificence, Hollywood has rarely produced anything that can compare with "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex," the current attraction at the University Theatre. The costuming is brilliant, the sets impressive and seemingly authentic and the technicolor, which has been so cousistenly bad in the past, achieves a new and more than welcome reality. As is to be expected however, the personal triumph of Bette Davis as the ruthless but passion-torn Elizabeth is the high point of the picture. For this is the type of gutty part which other actresses shun, but in which Miss Davis seems...
...Congressional realists this modest proposal was, putting it kindly, sheer romance. They heard but they did not harken to the President's argument: that an emergency pay-as-you-go defense tax would further slash his deficit...