Word: veneering
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...Veneer Cracks...
...through the veneer of efficient organization-the files, signs, arrows, and loudspeakers-the chaos occasionally emerges...
...doubt if we'll get a really big response," Miss Hotchkiss said. "Some firms have this upper-class veneer, tastefully reserved, and you know they do lots of important business work. But you don't know quite what...
...with a law-and-order veneer to beat four rivals in last June's Democratic primary. Now he is given a good chance to win the general election...
...role (that of a girl, wounded by love, who hardens into womanhood) similar to that she played in The Hostage. As a rural character she is fine, fresh native, though perhaps too given to sometimes enthusiastic "mugging," but, in this particular play, the role demands more of a sophisticated veneer. Vera should display more of her country education; and, with such sophistication, would come a heightened sense of tragedy. As Beliaev, problem. While physically right, he never manages the proper diction, he tends to run his words together, occasionally even slurring a g, and rarely being anything more than Russia...