Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literature of places as well as of people, particularly with a violet, snow-powdered December twilight in old Madison Square, which once was "like an open-air drawing room." What the work represents spiritually, no reader will soon show another, save that the tragedy of a strong, restrained nature, devoid of falsity or baseness, is a moving thing to watch, to experience...
...possess an independent competence." Financial capacity was explained: "Not ... a mere knack of handling the funds. ... A well-spoken speech may net only ten, where a word in the right ear will net a hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above all, he should understand how to befog issues wherein ideas perhaps lurk dangerously by raising and keeping raised a perfect dust storm of issues that really do not matter...
...proceedings by which this was accomplished were studiously devoid of drama. The Council learned last March that the world cannot be let in on the rivalries of nations for permanent Council seats without disastrous results. At that time the demands of Spain, Poland and Brazil for permanent seats led to the scandalous break up of a League session especially called to admit Germany to the League (TIME, March 15 et seq.). Last week the Council session at which this great misfortune was righted, seemed almost drowsy...
...like the pale water flowers of young Mr. Alden's Park Avenue set. So Mr. Alden decides to marry her. But first she must learn fine manners. Alas! Fine manners destroy her piquant charm. She reverts to handsprings, to the parrot. It ends happily and is almost utterly devoid of sense or beauty...
first English film of any importance ever to visit our shores has been released. It is a light hearted story of the playful mistress of Charles II, full of character, atmosphere, humor. It is devoid of the dull wastes of costume and scenery usual in such endeavors. It tells a simple comedy simply and ends it with the true pathos of tragedy. Nell Gwyn is shown meeting the King outside Drury Lane. She rises through his patronage to a prominent place on the English stage. Through his favor she confounds the haughty females of the court. He dies with...