Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Peru, who has gone into the tabloid business by purchasing from William Randolph Hearst the New York Daily Mirror and Boston Advertiser (TIME, March 19), signed his name last week to an advertisement which said: "I am sure you will agree with me that an up-to-date, clean, interesting tabloid is the paper you want. You will find it contains all the news that 95% of the people want to read...
Other chambers of commerce might indeed come clamoring for a Ritz in their town. Knowing the principles of the founder of the Ritz Hotels, well-informed observers were sure such demands would be snubbed promptly and with proper severity...
...while instructing people in the use of correct English on his first gramophone record for the Linguaphone Institute in London. He allowed his voice to say: "If what you hear is very disappointing and you feel instinctively 'that must be a horrid man,' you may be quite sure that the speed is wrong. Slow it down until you feel you are listening to an amiable old gentleman of 71 with a rather pleasant Irish voice, then that is me. All other people whom you hear at other speeds are impostors, sham Shaws, phantoms who never existed...
Harvard man hero, you feel she does it because she, like Dorrie, had a longing for and a misconception of the East and its people. Dorrie, to be sure, is perhaps the kind of girl who would be pleased if someone called her a dreamer of dreams. But so, almost certainly, is Author Powell; and it is very pleasant, now, when most first-novelists are either rabid and wild-eyed sophisticates or intellectual inverts with empty heads, to read what has been written by someone who is neither ashamed or proud of naivete, who carries in her mind the torture...
...music will be much the same as in the earlier days. Eighty players will take part in the entertainment, a greater number than the original concert boasted, to be sure; and with the additional attraction of Alfredo Casella, who last year gave the concerts a new significance, the Pops seem assured of yet another successful season. Forty-three years are none too many for such a pleasant institution as these concerts have proven themselves, and it is to be hoped that they will survive to see many another birthday...