Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What difference does it make if Hugo Black is a uniformed Kluxer? ... It was plain from his record that he is a born witch-burner-narrow, prejudiced and class-conscious. ... To suggest that the President did not know these traits is to belittle not only Mr. Roosevelt's splendid intelligence, but also his fine inbred instincts. ... A candidate even for district judge is investigated for weeks by G-men. But Black's appointment to the Supreme Court was not even referred to the Department of Justice. The President may not have known the general Washington belief...
...career with Josie Mansfield. Getting off to a fast start with some able stooging by Grant and Oakie, Arnold appears on his way to another of his masterful, belly-laughing characterizations, this time of the late Jay Gould's spectacular compeer. But enter love. Miss Farmer's rather self-conscious poignancy upsets the emotional possibilities inherent in Fisk's Wall Street development. Then set for a satisfyingly tragic romance amid the triangle of Arnold in love with Farmer in love with Grant in love with Farmer but faithful to Arnold, the watcher is again disturbed by the reappearance...
Since the first year contestants for the Hague Cup have been obliged to use regulation-size boats, with a minimum length of 25 ft. 11 in., minimum weight including crew and ballast of 5,500 lb. Publicity-conscious shipping lines have taken to building special boats for the race, selecting crews by competition, giving them a month off work to train. Only contestants last week were the crews of Standard Oil Co. of N. J.'s W. C. Teagle and the Italian Line's Conte di Savoia, each of which had two legs...
Capitalism. "Unionization, as opposed to Communism, presupposes the relationship of employment: it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profits. . . . The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against intrusion of alien doctrines of government. . . . Ordinary problems affecting wages, hours and working conditions, in most instances, will quickly respond to negotiation in the council room...
They are scrupulously clean about their sidewalks and gardens, but careless about their person. They are ardent churchgoers, but "hex" conscious and superstitious. They are hard people to do business with, but faithful when once won and kept coddled...