Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, Rome, Madrid and other capitals, other U. S. diplomats prepared similar explanations for irate Red Callers. Everywhere police protection was strengthened about U. S. envoys. With only a bill of exceptions and the Massachusetts Supreme Court, or the Governor's pardon, between them and death, Comrades Sacco and Vanzetti were more than ever the potential fuses for bombs* under the chairs of unwary U.S. dignitaries, whose safety was not increased by comment such as the opening editorial sentence of last week's Nation: "Judge Webster Thayer is a disgrace to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...Watson said, 'So you have been an organizer in Wilmington? Have you your credentials?' I showed him this card. He said, 'Well, I have one similar,' and he took it from his pocket...
...Methodists convened at Manhattan were less calm, more specific, about a similar situation in their own Asiatic mission field. Speaking before the Men's Methodist Council, Religious Dean Edmund D. Soper, Duke University, waxed satirical, pessimistic. Said he: "China, Japan, India wonder why we who would teach them have slaughtered each other in thousands, why we refuse to hold all races equal in our countries, why we will not hear both sides of questions. . . . We ask ourselves what is next, and we have no next. We have shot our bolt...
Billy Lossez and his ten-piece orchestra will provide continuous music in the Living Room while the Hotel Kenmore organization will perform a similar duty in the Reading Room. Dancing will be from 9.30 o'clock to 3 o'clock...
...professional indictment or genially as a personal confession gives rise to a feeling that what he says is more or less true. Reviewers, Mr. Littel writes, are notably overworked persons; and consequently their styles the excepts a choice minority) have come to be strangely, and most grotesquely, similar. They seem to have certain words which they invariably use, and without which no book review is complete. He cites examples 'poignant', 'moving', 'intriguing', 'admirable words which have been dulled with constant use until they have now lost any definite meaning they originally possessed, and are employed for connotation rather than denotation...