Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than a rumor--nor can one, lost in the hinterlands of Cambridge, always be quite sure--that a certain gentleman, hight Tunney, lieutenant of Marines, and sometimes called the crowned champion of the world, is to complete the scandal caused by a writer of popular songs, to the extent of entering the Social Register, be it more--then fell is the fortune of all but fatuity. For though when Greek meets Greek, they eat rice pilaf, when prize fighter marries debutante, the public eats the pudding, not alone of publicity, but of despair...
...Flamingo Hotel was not wrecked and the death list for all of Dade County is placed at 109 and as a result of the storm the property loss will exceed $100,000,000, yet there is no interruption of business in Miami, and we are very sure that TIME would not consciously add to our difficulties by the publication of exaggerated or untruthful stories emanating from sources that are not reliable. . . . L. W. CROW...
...Secret of Happiness" are like newspaper headlines: they promise everything, tell nothing. Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen in their philosophical moments, if sufficiently steeped in journalese and colloquialisms, might have written these same little pills of advice. Hence, countless readers will grin sheepishly and mutter: "Golly, that woman sure knows LIFE...
...whom Freddie Pardway seduced. There are power and sweep to Sweepings (the title comes from old Daniel's pennyscrimping examinations of the store's daily refuse, in the odd socks, ravelings, scraps and broken tinsel of which he finally recognizes his children). Its rapid motion is even, sure. Yet in all the 447 pages, times are penetrated as seldom as people; the pictures of Chicago's Board of Trade, her restaurants, clubs, night joints, aristocratic lakefront and booming South Side are superficial, gaudy pictures; turbulent impressionism. Nine-tenths of the book is conversation; rapid, clear, forceful...
...roars of the brave colonel are refreshing. Nor is Miss Landis unattractive. One could not mind having her about the house. The aged Jean Jacques was not such a fool, after all. And no one can dislike hearing a man go singing to his death when one is sure he will return. The colonel had to return, if only to wave his handkerchief. By the way, devotees of the Metropolitan should see the uniform on--was he a captain? That alone is worth, sacre bleu, twelve thousand francs of my uncle's money