Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final peace treaty. The German delegation to the Paris peace conference delivered a substantiated contradiction against that theory on May 29, 1919, duly received by the Allied and Associate Governments and never revoked. Therefore, when the unamended draft was signed June 28, 1919. these Governments were fully conscious of the fact that the German Government held the reverse opinion toward the so-called "war guilt." As a matter of course, no signature obtained by violence from a contracting party can pretend to mean "admittance...
...wall and laugh in hysterical, heroic rage as they pump bullets over the barricade. Purpose of the first performance of Spain Laughs was to see if a hand-picked audience would give enough encouragement to justify a Broadway opening. The partisan audience gave encouragement in plenty, though its drama-conscious members could not blink the fact that so loose-jointed a show might not be so happy in the commercial theatre as its more compact, economical model...
...appropriate vehicles lending themselves readily to every field, ranging in subject from modern burlesque to medieval liturgy. As such they should appeal to both artistic and popular factions. Nurtured from within by undergraduates, "Murder in the Cathedral" may well give cause for hope that Harvard is once more drama-conscious...
...Conning Tower column of Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."). Mr. Adams cheerfully explained in a characteristic sentence: "They just wanted me to work for less money, whereas I wanted to work for more." But New York newspapermen knew that the differenfce went deeper than dollars. Between stolid, self-conscious Mr. Reid and saturnine, self-satisfied Mr. Adams, for 16 years a quarrel had smoldered...
...little troubled by my lack of beauty, and I knew it, as a child senses those things. She tried very hard to bring me [the eldest child] up so well that my manners would in some way compensate for my looks, but her efforts only made me keenly conscious of my shortcomings. . . . My father [Elliott Roosevelt, brother of Theodore Roosevelt], charming, good-looking, loved by all who came in contact with him. high or low, had a background and upbringing which were alien to her pattern. He had a physical weakness... Whether it was some-weakness from his early years...