Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...great dignity and good humor, remarkable courage and a certain reserve," said Commentator Elmer Davis to the Washington Post) speaking of his late great & good friend, General Gray, a Persian cat that died last week, aged...
Later, at the newly refurbished ambassadorial residence, O'Dwyer cautiously told interviewers that 1) Mexico is a great country, and 2) bullfighting is a great sport. Until he presents credentials to President Aleman this week, O'Dwyer will confine himself to such pleasantries...
...Times-Herald," said McCormick, "it was not for political reasons, but it gave us an opportunity to take Americanism into the national capital." Niece Bazy Miller, the Times-Herald's editor, was making the most of her opportunity. Said Uncle Bertie: "The Shenandoah Valley, from which her great-grandfather came, is filling up with Republicans...
...Barry was the proudest and least able of the three. "The principal merit of painting," he once wrote, "is its address to the mind." Because he continually asserted his conviction that most other British painters were mindless, they expelled him from the Royal Academy. They also took great satisfaction in sneering at his half-mystical allegories and his absurd Death of General Wolfe (in which all the figures were shown classically nude...
...Blake's coat is too long," Grigson concludes, "and he can spare an inch or two for his now destitute forerunners." But Blake well deserves his long coat. Like a great artist, and unlike Fuseli, Mortimer and Barry, he pictured the heights with as much vision as he did the abyss...