Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure that every real subscriber to TIME feels...
...sure that you will be interested in the enclosed story from the March issue of The Westinghouse Magazine. It is with pride that I notice TIME to be the only magazine of general interest selected as an advertising medium for Westinghouse. You are to be congratulated...
Said the store order clerk: "Sure, dearie, this is Queen Marie...
Signor Alberto Pirelli: "We are building a nice house, but we are not yet sure what its dimensions are to be and we don't know what furniture we are going to put into it." Against the fiscal defeatism of Sir Josiah Stamp, the studied pessimism of the Germans, and Signor Pirelli's attitude of uncertainty, the U.S. Delegates were understood to be strongly militating for a solution, with the well-nigh irresistible impetus of their moral and financial prestige...
Incidental characters Mrs. Rinehart creates with a sure touch?the chorus girl turned by marriage into a lumpy termagant; the stern old grandmother who indulges a reprobate son. But, often as not, her dramatic moments flare into melodramatic anticlimax: Missie, weary of a wasted life, staggers to her old home, turns on the gas stopcock, falls asleep. "As the sun rose it turned into burnished copper the tarnished gas bracket, through which no gas had flowed for many years, and beat pitilessly on her throat; that throat on which her life was etched with fine lines, and in which...