Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literally, we never realized that there was in our midst a group of people so bent on convulsing an innocent audience. We came prepared to chuckle and remained to laugh hilariously. Even the orchestra waxed uproarious, and when a weary musician stoops to laughter you may be very sure the play is a "howling" success...
...cannot say that this is final and do not know that it will be completely satisfactory but I was well pleased with the workout today. I shall not be sure of any marked improvement for some time...
...President, after announcing that his mind was made up?that he would have Mr. Warren with or without the Senate's approval?practically backed down. To be sure, he went through the formality of offering Mr. Warren a temporary or recess appointment (which Mr. Warren declined) before nominating another man. But, inasmuch as Mr. Warren was staying at the White House during the later stages of the contest and, in some quarters, was even credited with having inspired the President's statement promising a recess appointment if the Senate refused a second time, the President's action can be looked...
...Manhattan to San Francisco. People called him the "temperance proprietor," because the walls of his liquorless and gruesome eating places were adorned with texts from the Bible. The Lord Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want confronted those who had money enough to eat in Dennett's. Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out. Proprietor Dennett failed, in 1901, for $92,000. Most of his creditors were women and missionary societies. His asset was one $20 hand-me-down suit. But young Mr. Childs, who had made some money in his employ, had by this time started...
...held an exhibition at the Scott and Fowles Gallery, Manhattan. The critics who visited it were prepared for the famed, familiar ribaldries of this satirist in clay-his grotesquely vivacious figures fully clothed, often painted as well, postured in the more ridiculous attitudes pf contemporary life. These, to be sure, were there, but the prudent, hurrying over them as if they had been jokes in Holy Writ, discovered, in addition, many heads of classic purity, some exquisite busts of children, a big torso in the antique manner. Upon these things lay the lustre of an immemorial beauty that was, assuredly...