Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years of Dr. Thayer's Headmastership, Mrs. Thayer has been his constant and never failing assistant. From the day a boy enters St. Mark's at the age of twelve as a first former he is always conscious of Mrs. Thayer's care and thoughtfulness. For 36 years on an average of five nights a week she has given her time and charm to entertaining the boys of the various six forms, and to numberless returning graduates, their wives and children she invariably offers the warm welcome of a home. To St. Mark's graduates...
...Robert Nichols address their play about the Shelleyan young physicist who discovers the secret of the atom, and causes an upheaval in the cabinet chamber at 10 Downing Street by his presentation of the consequences thereof. And perhaps in this play more than in most others, one is acutely conscious of the author's difficulties. The time of the play is tomorrow, and certainly any solution but the scientific one of a cosmological problem, and one which seems as valid as this, strikes an excitement-craving audience as a lame solution indeed. But Messrs, Nichols and Browne lay no claims...
Ever since the murder 13 months ago of Arnold Rothstein, one of its most amiable gambler-racketeers (TIME, Dec. 24). Manhattan has been kept acutely Rothstein-conscious. Last week, when the State's sole suspect in hand-burly, big-jawed Gambler George A. McManus-was acquitted, the Rothstein spotlight seemed likely to flicker out, leaving another famed Manhattan murder in unsolved darkness...
...courtyard of St. Damascus came a final disembarkment from the royal motors. Self-conscious reporters in swallowtail coats noted in Their Majesties' party the fascinating brown beard of Italian Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, "The Right Hand of II Duce," and the brigand-like black mustache of Cesare Maria di Vecchi, Count di Val Cismon. Italian Ambassador to the Holy See. Swiss drummers in velvet hats thumped yellow-painted drums. Swiss bandsmen blared the Italian royal anthem (the first time that such music had echoed from the Vatican's sacred walls), and followed it with the Papal hymn Inno...
Playwright Pascal makes it humorously clear that his subjects talk so interminably about sex that their actions are a self-conscious mockery. Unfortunately his dialog, which gets off to a smart start and upon which the play depends, becomes banal and repetitious...