Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foiled, mob-leaders plotted an attack next day on a train scheduled to arrive salt-laden at Cuenca from Ecuador's chief port, Guayaquil. Having heaped large stones and timbers upon the railway track, they foolishly sought to make assurance doubly sure by cutting the telegraph wires. At Guayaquil, the authorities, warned by telegraph trouble that something was amiss, placed armed guards upon the salt train which easily scattered the attacking peasantry...
...lenient, providing only that in a plea of self-defense the defendant shall prove that his decision to "get there first" was reasonable. "... it makes no difference whether, in fact, real danger exists. . . ." Commenting upon the Pastor's successful charge of prejudice, Texan expatriates drawled: "Texas must sure have changed, if people down there now entertain prejudice against murder...
...work at all. The $1,000,000,000 of U. S. investments abroad, apart from War loans, is seen as an indication of "something wrong" with the domestic market. Purchase of goods, usually nonessentials, on long-term payments, is blamed for "bolstering up" business dangerously with industrial depression sure to follow...
...fundamentally unsympathetic standpoint, and with a complacent assurance that the art and criticism of the moment are necessarily more worthy than the art and criticism which Longfellow felt to be best. No doubt we have left him far behind, but it is not always as easy to be sure of it as is Mr. Gorman. There is still room for more than one kind of mind in poetry. It is reasonable to disgree with the way in which Longfellow chose to approach his art, but it might present him more fairly to admit that he may have been right, even...
...familiar with Longfellow's life and writing may find the pages of this biography dull, since they offer neither new facts nor a very original interpretation of the old ones. Nor does the form and style of the book seem to add to its interest. There are, to be sure, pen sketches of the externals of the poet's world, which are often vivid and readable, even if a few may not be strictly accurate. There is, too, throughout the book a almost constant use of the present tense alone--a trick of style fast becoming hackneyed in contemporary biography...