Word: surer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...themselves. But probably this is easier to do now than it used to be. Americans abroad always used to have a certain sense of inferiority, especially in England, where they could not get over the feeling that they were more or less Colonials in contact with an older and surer civilization. Now the United States is the most powerful nation in the world. . . . There will probably be more American Ambassadors in the future who will stay Americans...
Those connected with it have not been unaware of this situation. Each year when their attention has finally been drawn to the Debating Union, they have expressed the hope of placing the organization on a surer footing. Although, manifestly, these endeavors have so far been ineffectual, it is nevertheless a truth that only greater continuity and regularity of action can lift the Debating Union from its present mediocrity. It cannot command the confidence and loosen the tongues of the students who are mildly interested in it until its effectiveness is no longer sacrificed to delayed starts, jerky progress, and weak...
...extra-porticum that the paper, rather more than ever, has something individual to say. Physically, is is crisper to the touch, its Caslon old-face pleasanter to the eye. As to delights beyond the eye and finger-tips, the new Advocate seems to carry behind it a surer authority and a genuine masculinity. Abandoning abstraction, the creation of several new departments, the brightening up of the old, and a kind of general tone of health and vigor begins to call the languid clubman and the lily-fingered litterateur from their opposite poles and give them a common interest...
...there is a surer and more irresistible comedienne on our stage than Ina Claire, theatre-goers have not seen her. Never did she play better. There are few leading actors so convincingly attractive as Mr. Young and Mr. Matthews. Of its type this entertainment has not been equaled this season, nor indeed since the same playwright's Aren't We All so agreeably occupied the time of Cyril Maude...
...Love. Most significant, most discouraging was the Actors' Theatre production of John Galsworthy's A Bit o' Love. It has become something of the mode to misprize Galsworthy. No surer example of the justice of this attitude has recently appeared. Mr. Galsworthy has attempted an emotional justification of Christian Faith. His curate hero has recently lost his wife in the ancient thicket of infidelity. He turns the other cheek and refuses to chastise the offending male. He refuses even to make a fuss about it and injure that unworthy's reputation as a rising doctor...