Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single out Miss Gish or Mr. Perkins simply because of their outstanding position would be almost unfair even though their efforts are unusually effective. Every member of the cast interprets his part with the highest amount of understanding and subtility. As a result, one is not so conscious of looking at a play, as of being present at the actual situation. Of course, much of this effect is owing to the Director, but it is mainly a matter of the intelligence of the actors themselves...
Like many another able man caught in similar "politics," Dr. Ochsner "got out" of the hospital, but not out of the University. When he conducted his classes last week his students cheered him lustily, as though they were civic-conscious Latin-Americans and he a politico...
Webster's New International Dictionary defines jew: "... To overreach by sharp practice, cheating or trickery; to practice imposition or extortion upon;- used opprobriously in allusion to practices imputed to the Jews by those who dislike them, or now sometimes colloquially without conscious reference to the Jews...
From London, John Masefield, British poet laureate, spoke by radio to the U. S., recited his poem "Sea Fever." Prelude to his speech: "I speak in a place haunted by ... the memories of poets. . . . However, we are not conscious of those ghosts at the present time. We are only conscious of two young friends who keep telling me that if I sneeze, 50,000 people will be immediately deafened. I shall try not to sneeze." (He did not sneeze...
...fact that Franz Josef's breakfast was almost invariably a pair of sausages, a portion of horseradish and a mug of beer. Last week they did their centenary-celebrating in Hungary, which with recurring rumors of 17-year-old Archduke Otto's enthronement in November, grows daily more Habsburg-conscious...