Word: exaction
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Some time ago (perhaps in TIME) I read that Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry were married in California by a Catholic priest. This ordinarily means that one or both of the contracting parties profess the Catholic faith. Is it possible to obtain exact information as to the time, place, name of Church and name of priest performing the ceremony...
Last week the exact counterpart of all these fanciful suppositions occurred in London. The newspaper of world's largest circulation in any language, the London Daily Mail has been devoting 16 columns per day to the story...
Early last week, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition prosecutions, conferred in Manhattan with Maurice Campbell, local Prohibition administrator, to settle the exact details of evidence-collection that would ensure airtight cases against the violators. Then, to prevent "leaks," the raiding squad was locked in an office without a telephone for four hours and kept there until specific instructions were issued...
...undimmed moral sight" something of the sort, saying "we can judge our own conduct and motives as we would those of another." The advantages of acting in accordance with this standard, of holding steadfastly to the judgment of the conscience he sums up in the sentence, "just an exact analysis of self-deception, exact attempt in excuse conduct less than the best tends in so far to dull the vision so every action that is done because a clear light shows that it is the right thing to do lends to increase the light, to sharpen the audience of perception...
...parody derives. Yokels, too, are compelled by their anxious timidity to give deceitful titters. Since almost all Manhattan theatregoers fall painfully into these categories, it was perhaps unnecessary for Albert Carroll and Dorothy Sands to make their burlesques in The Grand Street Follies of 1928 quite so hilariously exact as they did. The former simultaneously played Mrs. Fiske with the right side of his face and Ethel Barrymore with the left; Dorothy Sands played Mae West in Romeo and Juliet. Other impudent imitations were offered by Paula Trueman who appeared successively as Haidee Wright, Eva LeGallienne, and Helen Hayes...