Word: aforethought
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...music had been transcribed. What that nasty word seems to have consisted of is a rewriting to fit larger, more pompous groups of instruments. Leopold Stokowski seems really to enjoy the music of Bach, and has done quite a bit in calling attention to it. Yet, he, without malice aforethought, has done more than his rightful share in deforming the music to fit the large symphony orchestras to which he is accustomed. Or again, this year the Boston Symphony, too proud to use his arrangements, performed a reasonable facsimile thereof when they used two Bach Preludes that had been rearranged...
Francis Iles, who as Anthony Berkeley writes detective fiction, is also known to U. S. readers as the author of two much-admired psychological murder stories, Before the Fact and Malice Aforethought...
That the doors to the New Lecture Hall were locked and bolted when the first of the group arrived, has been laid to the cunning of Col. Charles R. Apted, who yesterday afternoon vigorously denied that the doors were locked with malice aforethought. According to his statement the doors are always locked by the janitor when no class is scheduled to be held in the hall. Furthermore, he was inclined to pooh-pooh the matter as being a trivial incident...
...college, from a smell in Mallinkrodt to a Conant speech. Here is the long-sought occasion to fulminate against brother Hearst, to analyse Mr. Roosevelt and all his works, to dig into facts and comment, to carp and to command, to charge about the University with purpose or malice aforethought...
Author E. M. Delafield (Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood), a nice mixture of Jane Austen, Punch and her own "provincial lady," writes with malice aforethought but manages to leave a pleasantly salty aftertaste. Seldom frighteningly clever, she preaches entertaining sermonettes that make her listeners laugh out of both sides of the mouth, go chuckling home to Sunday dinner...