Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kitchen:" Fancy-colored kitchen gear is worth at the most a footnote to an ART article on art-in-the-home or a BUSINESS article on department store operations. And are you sure that Macy's and Wanamaker's were the first to sell them? For years I have seen them in "gift shoppes" run by loathsome women with tricky ideas...
...lined up against a wall with Martinez Pulido, the latter asked him for a loan of a few pesos, which he placed on his sombrero, promising them to the soldiers on condition that they shot him through the heart. "Be sure and pay them back," said General Palacios, laughingly, as he made the loan...
...opportunity to squirm and ogle with an excess of youth every time he sits down in a chair. The most finished performance is supplied by Ann Andrews, brought surprisingly into the second act to give the younger female fanatics the benefit of her life story. Her beauty and the sure delicacy of her acting lend a brief element of perfection to a comedy hampered by fitful mediocrity...
Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, attended and argued for a form of confessional in Protestant churches as a means of relief. Said he: "The confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate to the Protestant churches, but motivated by a real determination to help meet the inward problems of individuals. Clergymen are giving different names to this form of activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems...
...phrase as, "the best book of the year," "the most brilliant novel of its kind written in a decade." But this perhaps is partly due to the caution of critics who are afraid to have their discoveries forgotten. Author Kennedy is reaching high; more noticeable than ever is her sure and satisfying command of form. This is a finer novel than The Constant Nymph...