Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cigaret or not. ... I am opposed to companionate marriage ... to any thing except permanent monogamy. . . . When a marriage has failed, divorce is the only solution." On top of this she rapidly repeated to her somewhat startled informants an apt parable to illustrate her point that religious bodies should not concern themselves with trifles. Then, tapping her chestnut stick at every step, she moved away...
...course (and with reason) that the interest taken in this subject is negligible when compared to that manifested by the Roman multitude in, the persecutions of the Christians. One may also maintain that the modern concern in this matte is purely philosophical: but there is little justification for this latter assumption. The modern attitude toward this subject, though of much smaller proportions than the ancient, is, nevertheless, of exactly the same nature. It is a vulgar pleasure taken in the knowledge of the mental agony experienced by "those about to die". But possibly the fault lies equally with the journalist...
What did New York's Governor think about agriculture? He said: " . . . The promotion of the interests of those who till the soil is certainly of vital concern. . . . Both national and state policies should be moulded to insure equality of opportunity and reward between those groups which produce the food and those which consume...
...billy goat invited attention to the versatility of the Seaboard National Bank, whose officers constantly dealt with matters as far away and, as far separated as Oregon and Texas, where goats abound. The nanny goat's business was more intimate. She "was pertly stating in type that a concern across the continent from the billy's bank was selling canned goat milk "for babies, delicate children and invalids . . . who cannot assimilate cows' milk." Her company was Meyenberg Laboratories Inc., and its home Salinas, Calif...
Peculiarly enough the tiny volumes issued each year by England's comic magazine and examples of which from 1844 to 1880 are now on view, seem to concern themselves to a marked degree in their colored engravings with topics of equal or greater moment today than at their time of issue. Thus those of 1852 and 1860 are titled "Progress of Bloomerism or a Complete Change" and "Swimming for Ladies." The figures depicted by the engraver John Leech show that though the costumes of this day would today be conspicuous for their superfluity, at that time they represented what...