Word: benightedness
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¶ A "Forty-Gallon Baptis" gets a token he is going to die at 10 o'clock that night. He makes the event an occasion to prove to his benighted Free-Will neighbors the error of-their ways.
In your Nov. 11 issue you print an anxious inquiry from a Boston lady as to whether I am the same benighted person, who, duringthe early part of the World War, claimed that "this War is the greatest blessing that has ever fallen on mankind since the German Reformation." To...
Now, Harvard is looked to as one of the staunchest strongholds of collegiate liberalism. But a university can be no more liberal than its president, so there must be some plot hatching in President Conant's scientific head which will prevent this law from suppressing freedom of speech and criticism...
Sirs: . . . Finally TIME has performed the neatest bit of magic to date-it has converted gliding and soaring into Transport, of all things [TIME, Oct. 8]. Poor impractical me, I had always had the benighted notion that motorless flying was just pure useless sport. I'm glad TIME put...
What is, perhaps, the most aggravating feature of Mr. Sullivan's dicta is not the aura of the Union League Club in late afternoon, nor the pomposity of his crystalized oratory, but the insistence that these New Dealers are embarking on adventures whose consequence they neither guess nor consider, that...