Word: devoide
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...work in an insurance office. Or that now, having perfected his draughtsmanship until it is a byword, he lives amid Sussex downs with a wife who also draws, in a cottage of crazy-quilt architecture, under an old beech, an elm, and near a business-like workroom devoid of all "arty" furnishings. Sitting at his drawing board with his round, glittering spectacles and clean-shaven ascetic countenance, he looks very much like a village deacon, gnome-like brow, repository of his inspiration and technique, is revealing feature. Years ago drew political cartoons for Punch and The Graphic. Lately he been...
...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...