Word: utterable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just to assure readers of the CRIMSON that he was an utter ass, (as well as snob), he added an editor's note to one of the letters received criticizing his article. The letter concluded, "Boston, we agree, is the Hub of the Universe. Everything else is in motion." The editor appended, "And one might add, going around in circles." Of course, to include Germany with its scientific progress, New York, and so on, in a remark of this kind, is conclusive proof that the editor is in harmony with a page from Stephen Leacock's fun book, on which...
...Ruby Keeler (Mrs. Al Jolson), who failed to make a Broadway success in her own right because her voice was too small and who was persuaded to make her cinema début in this picture because she has pretty legs and can tap dance. Ruby Keeler's utter inability to act is far more appropriate to her rôle than any feigned incompetence could possibly be. It gives Forty-Second Street a charm which the efforts of the rest of the cast-George Brent, Guy Kibbee, Dick Powell and Warner Baxter (as a nerve-ridden musicomedy director...
...last few pages are hurried, if Miss Bentley permits David to utter lengthy banalities on his family history, one must overlook these, and forgive her. The remainder of the task is well done. The general effect of the book is to send one scurrying to his own genealogy. Perhaps that is all that one should require of any Saga...
...Glass's to revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved his arms in mighty circles. He bludgeoned the Senate with loud arrogant words. He drove most of his colleagues from the Chamber in utter disgust. But almost single-handed he did succeed in stalling all important Senate business for a solid week...
Hodo is "The Way of the Perfect Emperor" and War Minister Araki would put sword to his taut, flat stomach rather than doubt for a single instant the utter perfection of the "Son of Heaven," bespectacled Emperor Hirohito. Ergo the deeds of the Japanese Army, done exclusively in His Majesty's divine name, must be just, right and essentially merciful deeds...