Word: aforethought
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article on Yehudi Menuhin [TIME, Feb. 6, p. 24], the Jewish violin prodigy, you gave a sketch of his life; you sang his praises; you told us how he was a Tartar; in fact, you did everything but mention that he is Jewish. This you did deliberately, with malice aforethought. Whenever one speaks of Yehudi, one simply can't leave out the fact that he is Jewish. You stupid, blind and jealous editors did. I like your nerve...
...devotees, quite dour and dismal. Should it become now a laughing-stock? Harvard, Yale and Princeton have undertaken to move it in this direction. The crucial topic set for their latest triangular wrangling--"Resolved, that education is the curse of the present age" and they chose with chuckles aforethought. They expressly intended to give light discussion wide play in the ensuing debate, and so to invite the attendance of a larger audience, tempted by an opportunity not only to think but to smile...
With Malice Aforethought...
...prefer to attribute this awful vagueness to inefficiency rather than malice aforethought. The tutors are apparently quite as much in the dark as the seniors, and quite as much harrassed. Some say "Saturday", some "Monday", and some frankly say, "God knows when...
...their power to make the Games extremely comfortable and pleasant for all concerned. Some of our men misbehaved themselves grossly; some of their countrymen, excited and excitable, did the same-except that they were less to blame in that they acted on the spur of tension and without malice aforethought. But neither example of rowdyism should be given sufficient importance to mar the general effect of the whole. The French honestly did the best they knew how to do for us; and if the sleeping quarters were not what we had been accustomed to, and the transportation somewhat bizarre...