Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only beginning to command recognition in the United States is Vlaminck. Mr. and Mrs. Q. A. Shaw McKean have lent among other important pictures a characteristic landscape. Vlaminck depends on organization of light and shade, and his handling is always dramatic with a very free but sure technique...
...wise man finds himself lost in a forest of political controversy, he sits on a stump and sends out friends to scout for bearings. That is what President Hoover will do on Prohibition. In the campaign, voters asked him what his position was, what his plans were. Not sure himself, he replied: "I do not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment. I stand for the efficient enforcement of the law. . . . Grave abuses have occurred. An organized searching investigation of fact and causes can alone determine the wise method of correcting them." Congress last week voted $250,000 "for such...
Queen Mary made sure that the carpenter was unhurt...
...eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote...
...dominion, will visit every part of the globe, America not excepted, of course. The imagination is staggered when one comes to think of what will happen when a Pope sets foot in New York. I do not say that the present Pontiff will attempt it, although, personally, I am sure, he is willing enough. But the day will come...