Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moments that mark the dramatic progress of the piece, they have just those few words for which the situation calls. The rest of the significance is left to the histrionic efforts of the actors and the attentive understanding of the spectator. One cannot help regarding this feature as a solid dramatic virtue in the play and its author. In the third place, the play exhibits an obvious ambition to become sententious, on social custom, on love. Since there are enough appropriate chartreuse to utter these side remarks, they become entertaining without becoming crude; and add to the life...
...educated men what are the sources of the solid and durable satisfactions of life? That is what you are all aiming at--the solid, durable satisfactions of life, not primarily the gratifications of this moment or tomorrow, but the satisfactions that are going to last and grow. So far as I have seen, there is one indispensable foundation for the satisfactions of life--health. A young man ought to be a clean, wholesome, vigorous animal. That is the foundation for everything else, and I hope you will all be that, if you are nothing more. We have to build everything...
...secret treaty-making were demonstrated again last week by a flood of rumors containing dire hints of secret "war clauses." Though everyone knows that secrecy between nations breeds misunderstandings and wars, the Fascist Tribuna declared in an exultant editorial: "Following the good old method of secret diplomacy, a solid contribution to post-war European pacification has been achieved...
...open secret that in this affair there are only imagary dates of payment, which will lead up to a loan with solid security in the shape of our territorial possessions, as was the case for Turkey. Such a thing, Mr. President, I am bound to tell you we shall never accept...
...this respect his desires are fulfilled. Just as Mathematician Charles L. Dodgson quite vanished behind Lewis ("Wonderland") Carroll, so Political Economist Dr. Leacock is concealed- save where the solid metal of sense frequently thrusts through the dazzling enamel of nonsense- behind the author of Literary Lapses, Frenzied Fiction, Further Foolishness, etc., etc. These books, he modestly says, are "of so humorous a character that for many years it was found impossible to print them. The compositors fell back from their task suffocated with laughter...