Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just in case hell should break loose, former President Gaston Doumergue, today the somewhat self-conscious mascot of French law & order, left the country estate to which he has twice "retired forever," bustled into Paris...
...Zealand, by the one-time editor of Pearson's Magazine, these hopes seemed reasonable and it is therefore the more painful that they are not realized. In Hei Tiki, as usual, the chieftain's daughter takes up with a rival tribal chief's son. Her camera-conscious father shakes his battle-ax, the black warriors jump into their canoes and there is the customary stone and mud-pie fight around the village walls. "Hei Tiki" is the love charm which girls of the Maori tribe wear around their necks. Worst shot: a group of natives with their...
...Representative Howard Worth Smith of Alexandria, Va., conscious of the fact that his constituency includes the home of the Father of his Country, was determined to preserve the Constitution at the making of which that Father presided...
...slept with our windows open that hard winter and had had only one blanket apiece"). And he is almost as hard a drinker as a Dashiell Hammett hero. It is small wonder that Julie falls in love with him at sight. Conscious of the fact that she is "not a lady," that she has a far-off husband with whom she does not get along, a precarious job as a style-illustrator, she begins writing him love-letters even before they are introduced. Her resistance to his seduction is merely formal, slightly complicated by the unexplained facts of her married...
...battle is biologically more serious than would be the loss of an equal number of middle-aged people. If the employment of young men in war were prohibited-as the employment of young people in various dangerous occupations already is prohibited-then we should be acting with race-conscious logic...