Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheer Confidence. Thus, on price policy, van Zeeland took a position opposite to President Roosevelt's. He announced nothing resembling the NRA, and headlines about NEW DEAL FOR BELGIUM could be charged off as oversimplified tosh. Chief effect of the European currency misgivings produced by Belgium's devaluation was to give a fillip to the notion that "Sterling is the best money," and Sterling soared against other currencies, gold and paper. Smug British bankers plumed themselves once again on the Empire's supremacy in creating sheer confidence out of whatever sheer confidence is made of. Keen...
Last week Clem Sohn went up in a plane, jumped at 12,000 ft. After a sheer drop of 2,000 ft. he spread his arms and legs, felt the air sustain him. Like a spread-eagled bat he slanted steeply downward, getting the "feel" of his wings. Bending his knees experimentally, he whipped over in an inside loop. Then he zoomed left & right, leveled off, dived, pulled up in a short climb. Satisfied he had succeeded in his experiment, he folded his wings, pulled the ripcord of his regular parachute at 6,000 ft., landed some three miles from...
...outstanding performance last evening in Sanders Theatre, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral, directed by G. Wallace Woodworth, roused a rather stodgy audience out of its lethargy by the sheer brilliance of several of the compositions, which ranged from Weelkes and Allegri to Holst and Harvard's Archibald T. Davison...
Unhackneyed, humorous and at times downright noble, Playwright Obey's Noah should tickle sophisticates with its whimsicality, should bring temporary comfort to those involved in life's complexities, should cause sheer delight to the pure in heart. First produced in French in Paris, Noah has the same sort of appeal as The Green Pastures. But it is clearly a product from the banks of the Seine, not the Mississippi, could not possibly be taken as an imitation...
...rowdy equivalent of "Hail. Hail, the Gang's All Here!" Musicians in last week's audience sat fascinated by the uncanny way the orchestra described each character, each situation. Laymen liked the swift-moving stage pictures, consistently more effective than those in almost any other opera. Sometimes sheer noise created the excitement but the pace never lagged, even at the end when the convicts' mighty chorus was as conventional as anything to be heard in a Russian Orthodox Church...