Word: utters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This kind of thing must end! As, I have abolished strikes, I intend absolutely to stop periodical attempts upon my life. . . , You know that I do not utter words in vain...
...England as a brother nation under the protection of the British Empire. The Mosquito kings, thus formally established in their throne, ruled until 1894 a nation of 8000 Indians, never realizing that their dynasty was the fictitious product of English statecraft. Even recently, Hendy, a Mosquito Pretender, plotted in utter seriousness to regain the realm of his ancestors...
...conscientious objector, was the only one to foresee the fruitlessness of the war when it was declared. Dick and Madge both went out, scorning what they then deemed his cowardly behavior. When they come back, like all those who went through it, they realize the utter no tense of medals, knighthoods,--labels, as they put it. Tom returns from the "conchy" camp at Boulogne, half-starved. The Father, entrenching himself behind his knighthood, declares that he will oust the "conchy" from his home. When his two other children, disgusted with their pater's pre-war outlook, declare they will...
...attentive understanding of the spectator. One cannot help regarding this feature as a solid dramatic virtue in the play and its author. In the third place, the play exhibits an obvious ambition to become sententious, on social custom, on love. Since there are enough appropriate chartreuse to utter these side remarks, they become entertaining without becoming crude; and add to the life of the piece as rendered by the Copley players...
...sweaty writhings of agony or with the weary sigh of resignation, whether he rattles with final rales or lets his breath cease gently, Dr. MacDonald wants to know. It will be interesting to know truthfully how long before death famed men devise their "last" wise words; how long before utter extinction the moribund can sense the torturing presence of the bedside throng...