Word: potent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...range for Northampton and a higher education. Her father follows her footsteps four years later and together they attempted to scale the heights of Park Avenue society. For several reels they fail badly. The daughter-of-the-range manages a runaway rescue of a prominent debutante who is more potent in the ballroom than she is on a horse. Meanwhile the cultured cowgirl has roused romance in the breast of the youth next door. A"nd so it goes. The best of the acting is done by a trick bulldog named "Peanuts...
...game which Richards played was almost incredible in pace, flexibility, finish. Journalists ran dry of superlative in their attempts to do him justice and paid him the most potent compliment at their command by naming him as " Tilden's peer...
...make the best wives. (P. 19.) An average speed of 250 miles an hour-in a blinding sandstorm. (P. 27.) Victor Hindmarch-when his non-stop dancing partner retired a-faint, he continued with a woman spectator. (P. 31.) "Laddie"; Sanford - American sportsman. (P. 28.) A Supreme Court potent enough to do "ten times as much work as it did in the days of Marshall." (P. 4.) The Oxford crew and the Oxford track team-and Hume, Brown, Mellen and Kane...
Hugo Stinnes. Crafty, potent, indurate, Herr Hugo Stinnes, coal magnate, multimillionaire, present " All-Highest " of Germany, plots a coal victory in the Ruhr. His aim is the control of the European steel industries, and, like all mysterious figures who move in the no-man's-land of international politics, he stands to win whichever side comes...
Coueism appears doomed before the new emancipator of the sub-conscious, whose teaching is even "more potent" than the reiteration of the Freshman. It is really too bad that the new sun should arise just as Coue himself had planned a long lecture tour, and was expected to arrive early in January, like a belated Christmas gift. The dictates of courtesy would have suggested perhaps that Dr. Gayer keep his discovery to himself until the self-styled father of auto-suggestion had had first...