Word: exaction
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...portrait, express collect, we will send you our thoughts respecting the picture as a whole. "Our friends think that if the lines of the coat were a little more clearly defined. . . ." At the bottom of the letter was a tracing of a stickpin with the note, "This is the exact size of Mr. Rockefeller's stick-pin- without diamond." Artist Matsakas profited from these criticisms and two weeks later sent the revised portrait to Florida. He carefully laid away the tie. Last week a Chicago newspaper reported that Matsakas "has called our attention to the fact" of the portrait...
...permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report."' Passionately fond of a good story, he demanded that his reporters write interestingly. Life to him was no mere procession of elections, legislatures, murders. It was "a new kind of apple, a crying child on the curb, the exact weight of a candidate for President, the latest style in whiskers, the idiosyncrasies of the City Hall clock, a new football coach at Yale, a vendetta in Mulberry Bend...
...issue through to a conclusion, I will say that it has been my privilege to deliver Father Divine's message to thousands in the Pacific Northwest since December of last year. During December I visited Father Divine personally and ascertained by observation and experience the exact nature of the work He is doing; and by co-operation with Him and the Principle advocated by Him I have been able to witness the duplication in some measure of His wonderful works in the form of apparently miraculous healing of all manner of physical disease as well as the more remarkable...
...signal, the members of the secret society creep up on Garrett, gag and bind him with adhesive tape while he is having his shoes shined. A high-school girl (Judith Allen) entertains his bodyguard while the boys take Garrett to a deserted factory, try him in a kangaroo court, exact his confession to both murders by dunking him in a rat-infested well. The conclusion is an amazing scene, presumably a DeMil-lenium, in which the schoolboys parade through the streets singing such songs as "The Old Grey Mare" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while riding Garrett...
...believed by Catholics. Yet its origin is lost in antiquity. Some say that Mary died at 69, others at 72 or 75. Jerusalem and Ephesus both claimed to have been her death place. How she died is not recorded, but theologians argue (in terms which to them are as exact as mathematics) that because fleshly dissolution could not come to Christ's Mother, she died of love. The Assumption into Heaven is supposed to have taken place from three to 40 days later. Theologians hold that her body & soul were reunited, her Jewish burial garments cast off and herself...