Word: traces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Could detect no trace of conscious irony or sarcasm in a remarkable defense of U. S. films by that peppery late Victorian, Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, M. P. When a member casually remarked that U. S. films should be barred from England because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they...
...have your baby. It will take $3,333.33. She is all right, but last night was cold. We don't know what will happen this cold weather. Be ready with the money when we call you. This is not my writing, so you needn't try to trace me.' The police had failed to find the kidnapers of our two-year-old daughter, so we answered the letter, were soon informed by a telegram to look for a Negro boy with a broom handle on a certain street corner. I looked and found a pickaninny...
...Angeles, Calif., idlers, bummers, run-dums, hooligans, drugstore cowboys, shuffled into a dime museum "for men only" to gawp at stimulating pictures, grisly specimens, pickled freaks, wax wonders, and at Balto, famed Alaskan husky dog, who pulled the lead trace on the sledge that carried diphtheria antitoxin to Nome two winters ago; the dog to whom Manhattan erected a bronze statue...
...seems to me to represent the genuine, clean-minded, keen young man of today in these United States. Every girl will have a candidate for this honor, but if she looks at the portrait I have done of Mr. Stone she is more likely to see more than a trace of that ideal young man whose picture she carries in her heart." The speaker was Thomas Casilear Cole, who had 35 paintings on exhibition at the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan, last week. He was particularly pleased with his "Portrait of a Typical American Young Man" and his model-Melville E. Stone...
...Abelard, interesting though it was, acted merely as a bridge from his mind to those of his listeners. With communication once established first papers for citizenship in the super national, super temporal country of cultivated minds were quickly passed across. Yet, though Professor Gilson fought against Germany without a trace of hate, his type of mental distinction is very French. Only one nation in the world could have produced a mind imbued with a clarity so finely poised between the obvious and the obscure. It is to be hoped that Professor Gilson will soon again repeat his American adventure...