Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gleefully conscious that the undergraduates of certain gentlemanly institutions hereabout have a reputation for being sedate and sedative in the presence of the fair, and for being given to pinks in oolong and underlinen. We are inwardly gratified that we are reputed to be rough in our ways, ready with our blandishments, and resolute in our pursuit of happiness and its appurtenances. Neither estimate errs on the side of verity, but to deny that we appreciate both would be to stretch the truth still further...
...FOOTNOTE* Depression-conscious, too, is a current series of Arrow Collars advertisements. To the jobless they hint that jobs come easier to the man in a stiff collar. To the employed they hint that the man in a stiff collar is more pleasing to his employer, surer...
...quite conscious of this great dignity, of this great honor you do me. I know the background of a senate chamber. I know that the members of this body realize what it is to be a senator, when you go back and understand and recall what a senate was in ancient Rome. . . . When the barbarians entered Rome and saw the senate in session they thought first of all that they were simply nothing alive, but statues in marble, so dignified were they...
...born very humble and, I may say, of poor people. I have never forgotten it and I shall never forget it, and when I realized that I was in a position where I might serve the poor, the suffering, those in need, that I might make them conscious of our common Father, even now I feel that there was an obligation to do so. There is a great consolation and a great reward, Mr. Senator, that you have referred to my work for the poor...
...hunt. Enraged, that fine gentleman flicks an eye from one of his hounds with his whip and gets toweringly drunk after dinner. It is unpleasant to think of him as commander of all Russia's cavalry and, later, of all the Russian armies. For even the dogs are conscious that something unusual, something dark and dreadful is coming to pass-the War, entered into by the Romanovs to gloss over their moral and mental shortcomings. To a dog like Siedoi, excitement is always welcome and off he goes to the front with Fedka. They are taken prisoners and live...