Word: lightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your admirer of Dumas will not find fault with their work. Zound's, Mortiou's, diavolo's there are in plenty. Gentlemen insult each other with perfect grace, and draw their long steel on the lightest provocation. Madame De Chevreuse still plots this time in trousers. And if Richelieu is becoming feeble, Mazarini "the snake replaces the eagle" is on hand to put obstacles in the way of redoubtable Gascon gentlemen. The three original musketeers are missing but the loss is slight when their places are taken by Cyrano de Bergerac and the young Chevalier Tancrede, whose antecedents will surprise...
MUSICAL Loveliest, loudest, lightest: Manhattan Mary, Funny Face, Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Hit the Deck, Show Boat...
...binding would add a note of colour and its very short essays allow you time to straighten your tie before welcoming your caller. If this be faint praise, let it be said that the another and his publishers could hardly have intended the book for anything more than the lightest of light reading...
Refinements on the familiar, far too heavy Diesel engine are reported by Mr. Sperry after years of research. The new motor weighs close to the lightest gasoline engine; is capable of delivering speed and horsepower comparable to good racing motors of the normal type. Experts read the news with deepest interest, hoping that widespread tests will confirm Mr. Sperry's belief that the new power plant meets every air requirement ; that by elimination of the fire hazard it will add an enormous safety factor to flying; particularly for commercial and passenger planes...
...clap first; as the music faded, the applause gathered and grew quicker; then voices cheered, diplomats and dowagers crowded toward the stage on which a girl was nodding and laughing and stooping to pick up flowers. The enthusiasm that greets an opera singer's debut is sometimes the lightest, the most sudden, the most exciting that any artist can ever achieve. Dorothy Speare, last week in Washington, was enjoying a moment that she must always remember for its exquisite gaiety, thrown to her like a bouquet...