Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discontent" struck her as "an unusually ignoble policy." Said T. R.'s first child: "I've seen many instances of unfairness in political campaigns but the effort of the Democratic party to saddle Mr. Hoover with complete responsibility for everything takes first rank among samples of conscious and unscrupulous partisan dishonesty." Calvin Coolidge fired the Republican's sunset gun by radio from Northampton. "For nearly 20 years," said he, "our President Herbert Hoover has been serving our country and the world. . . . If five Americans were to be selected today to devise remedies for the present condition...
...Self-Conscious...
...about ready for a psychopathic specialist. All I can think of, and all I can see, are people who are pigeontoed, knock-kneed, potbellied, big-chinned, beak-nosed, toe-headed, frog-headed, pinheaded, mouse-faced, horse-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet-faced, and Huey-long-faced. I feel self-conscious when I look at my own wife and child. I worry as to what animalistic and puppet-istic characteristics I have...
...disillusioned journalist, one a prudish young parson, one a middle-aged Irish stoker of herculean build. Sadie Patch, the girl, was a fine physical and mental specimen of femininity. At first everything went according to desert-island Hoyle. Civilized decencies, if not amenities, were observed with conscious strictness. As clothes wore out and beards and familiarity grew, the atmosphere changed. Sadie, of course, became the bone of continuous contention. Unalarmed in her woman's wisdom, she knew she had to keep the peace somehow. How she did it none of them knew till the rescue ship came along, took...
...Conscious of this tradition of oldtime missionary virility, the Appraisal Commission which surveyed foreign missions for laymen in seven U. S. Protestant Churches (TIME, Oct. 17), looked critically at those who carry on the work today. Said its reports during the past fortnight...