Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's most resounding titles, which for sheer euphony tops that of many a noble duke and earl, is held by the Lord of the Manor of Circum cum Wilcocks alias Fransham Parva in the parish of Little Fransham. Last week, along with 26 other manorial lordships, it was knocked down at auction for a paltry $924. At the same auction, London Bookseller William Alfred Foyle bought himself five lordships...
...platoon game gives every underdog a chance. Colleges that cannot afford to beat the bushes for hordes of burly ballplayers can hold their own if they can sign up a small squad of good men. The limited-substitution rule keeps the football factories from beating them down with sheer manpower. The G.I.'s, dependable veterans who could be counted on for a polished performance every Saturday, are all gone. In their place, some of the best teams are fielding inexperienced youngsters, prone to the big-stadium jitters...
...sheer benevolence that caused Rollo and his line to admit their power and decide many a cause against their own immediate interest. Practical considerations of staying in the king business made it desirable to give the constituents the feeling that the king obeyed a higher law of justice. Kingship, indeed, is meaningless without reference to a higher law. And this is the irony of power: that it will either create checks upon itself or it will wither...
...extremes unconsciously trying to avoid the "made-up" praise of critics who have long since become bored with the theatre Although he would deny it, his work in these instances seems to disagree simply for the sake of disagreeing, to smash idols on slender pretexts from motives of sheer perversity. He scorns Shirley Booth, for instance, because she is a "common-man" actress who makes love to the public by portraying the common level. For Bentley, the relationship between Miss Booth and her audience is purely erotic...
...Crusaders) in the last six months, one schoolboy complained that he was "beginning to feel middle-aged." A weary wag some years his senior replied by recommending The Black Shield of Falworth as distinctly "the lesser of medievals." Actually, The Black Shield is better than that. In sheer athletic thwack-in the vim with which buffets are fetched and weasands slit-it is one of the jaw-jarringest things of its kind since Douglas Fairbanks' 1922 Robin Hood...