Word: shred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Protestant Episcopal Church, some take a high road and some take a low road, each group expecting to be in heaven before the other. The low-roaders hold only for the two sacraments, baptism and communion, finding "not a shred of evidence" for the high-roaders' belief that Christ is to be reached through five more sacraments-confession and absolution of sins, confirmation, extreme unction, holy orders, matrimony. Neither group acknowledges the ghostly authority of any earthly pope; together they elect a bishop to preside over one and all, and formally their Church is one church, militant...
Writers of sporting articles are forever chafing themselves into a fine frenzy over nothing at all. It is their trade. Poor fellows, they must find something memorable in every tilt they see and a shred of Hector in every county champion. They are paid to make things seem exciting and in pursuance of their calling they resort to many sad devices so that when at last a moment occurs which, by its inherent humanity, is dramatic and blood-stirring, they have nothing left to say, and can only shake their heads, and tap out fustian phrases with their fingers. Last...
...never once detected in company with Geraldine Farrar-also in Berlin last week. Though lacking even a shred of evidence, the Communist newspaper, Welt am Abend, not only recalled onetime famed innuendoes respecting the intimacy of Geraldine and Wilhelm (circa 1902) but even remarked: "It is a very peculiar fact that his former imperial and royal highness and the American singer Farrar, arrived on the same...
...they let the unhappy man rest? All these psychiatrists and rowdy critics who endeavor to shred up Poe s soul, have not uttered a single word that would bring before one's eye the beauty, the immensity of a soul in love with beauty"or the melodious music that sings itself in each line of Poe's poetry...
...generally mediated between the contending factions. Tuan Chi-jui and Tsao Kun, respectively "Chief Executive of China" and "Last President of China," each pretended during the week that he exercised the executive power. Both prudently announced these claims from unstated hiding places at Peking, since neither retained a shred of authority, though Tuan claimed to possess the Government seals...