Word: nerveless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were members of the Turkish Parliament, among them General Ruchdi Pasha and former Minister of Interior Djambolet Bey. The remaining seven included men of lesser rank and two notorious assassins, Lazo Ismail and a man known simply as "Horsehide." He, bullnecked, nerveless, had snored through the preceding night. The others had not slept. All were to be executed in a few minutes for conspiracy to murder President Mustapha Kemal Pasha...
...which you gentlemen stand. Oh, other leaders will rise. These puny and little leaders who control now will not control always. I apologize. I had almost violated the rules and traditions of this House. . . . Other leaders will come hereafter and will take up the standards dropped from the nerveless dead hands of Bryan and Wilson and Roosevelt and LaFollette and Gompers. Other leaders will come and carry their standards, and when they do they will not be alone. There is a God who doeth all things well in this world in spite of what you gentlemen stand for. [Applause.] . . . This...
...nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic...
THUS FAR-J. C. Snaifh-Appleton ($2.00). Rushing alongside the horny-hided thriller-reader, Writer Snaith delivers pointblank a tale about a scientist who grafted the fourth dimension upon the fetus of a high anthropoid. The offspring was nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic. Unforturfately, it was also sadistic and clawed out a number of people's carotid arteries, among them that of the scientist. Also unforunately, a very biological biologist and a very bemonocled amateur detective pile the book with slovenly heaps of "scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked...
...shown a decided improvement, and furthermore should have the psychological advantage peculiar to tennis of fighting with everything to gain and nothing to lose. Ingraham, on the other hand, has a tournament temperament which has seen him through many tight places. Nothing phases him. He is to all appearances nerveless...