Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet, has since penned some interesting observations of her former master. Wells's attitude to his profession is hardboiled, so sensible you wonder if he can really mean it. Says he: "I have never taken any great pains about writing. I am outside the hierarchy of conscious and deliberate writers altogether. . . . Sir J. C. Squire doubts if I shall 'live' and I cannot say how cordially and unreservedly I agree...
...social uppercuts through his habitant in Dunster House. Members of the house will admit that this is a characteristic not lacking in certain other members. Those who are more self critical will admit that it is present to a small degree in themselves. There has been no conscious attempt from within, either by the students at large or by a minority, to force others to abide by the same standards. The situation is anything but serious. And yet, subtle distinctions on not altogether creditable lines are already perceived in the two Houses...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since Harry Cowles forsook the Harvard Club of Boston and went to Cambridge, William J. Bingham has had difficulty in providing enough courts; and now M. I. T., under the direction of "Jack" Summers, sometime professional at the Union Boat Club, has become squash-conscious. At B. C., B. U. and other places, the development will be the same when the youngsters realize what they are missing...
...Their Majesties reverse the usual royal tactics of courting popularity and employing journalists to puff them, if King Haakon with excessive modesty is still self-conscious in Norway after reigning securely for a quarter-century, if Queen Maud goes about her shopping in Oslo completely unattended and sometimes unrecognized, this strange royal conduct seems to be exactly what Norwegians like. A quaint, possibly significant scrapbook is kept by Their Majesties. She pastes into the section headed We Never Did or Said This newsclippings of that sort. The rest of the scrapbook, much the larger section, bears mute but gracious royal...
...Harvard band has to pay for its own dress and consequently is very definitely limited; but even if some trumpet-conscious Maecenas gave from what he had left after the Stock Market crash to buy gilded epaulettes and Cossack helmets for the bandplayers, it would be unfortunate if the musicians succumbed to the glamor and the tinsel...