Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington was sweltering. Tempers were short. Discarding forensic veneer, speaking "as one soldier to another." the veteran of Château-Thierry and Soissons said: "What I have to say is that there is a little uneasiness in this country about the American Legion. I can't imagine anything more ridiculous than for you to go down to Detroit with a program of relief for the whole country and at the same time hold out a tin cup. If you do that you will be laughed at. And I say that as a man in favor of the Bonus legislation...
...wear the right clothes on the right occasions; hence he is a very desirable member of the society in which he moves. But the fact remains that he is a hard person to know for what he really is, that sooner or later the world will wash off his veneer, and that enthusiasm is the first requisite for achievement. --Daily Princetonian...
...social daisy chain in which he must finally strangle. However, the Way toward regeneration still lies open; it all comes down to a question of values. While the "Princeton Manner", that debutante manna, may make idols of the sad young man, the "Princetonian" advises, and rightly so, that a veneer is but a veneer, and that a zest, an enthusiasm, that indefinable "joi de vivre", is, after all, the requisite for achievement. When that is gone, Life in the Spirit goes. When that is gone, then, O Princeton, weep for Adonaisl...
England's Sitwell trio (Osbert, Edith, Sacheverell), sophisticated rather than passionate poets, conceal their artistry beneath Sitwellian artificiality that annoys many a plain person, delights their devotees and themselves. But occasionally, as in Brother Osbert's Dumb-Animal stories, humanity cracks the super-Etonian veneer, sentiment overcomes even a Sitwell and enables him to communicate with...
...serious reversal for President Hoover and his Administration. Last month he personally visited three States (Massachusetts, Ohio, North Carolina). In each of them the election tide ran against him. Directly or indirectly he and his actions, or lack of action, were implicit issues under the criss-cross veneer of local questions. Voters struck...