Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Auto-conscious citizens have been kept in a titter of excitement since the introduction of Ford, model A, through the successive automobile shows, the successive price cuttings. If citizens had over- emphasized the importance of the vehicle industry in 1927, they were brusquely brought to their senses last week. They learned from Washington that the past year had been relatively ineffectual, auto- wise. The number of passenger cars sold was 2,938,868; less than 1926, less than 1925, less than 1924, less than...
...that this man was by way of becoming the Democratic nominee for President, Mrs. Smith, as she lay among her pillows, flowers and relatives, must have wondered often what it would be like to live in the White House. And while she was musing thus, many another lady, conscious that who shall be First Lady of the land is not an unimportant matter socially, wondered what this candidate's wife was like, Mrs. Katherine Dunn Smith...
...Pertinax' like?" wondered, last week, admirers of the President. Friends of Editor André ("Perttinax") Géraud were quick to recall him as an active, married man, possessing no children and but one flourishing, likeable dog. Scarcely a statesman in Europe is too potent to be conscious whether he has just been praised or blamed by "Pertinax's" trenchant, independent pen, and most Great Men are careful to recognize him with a nod or smile, when he inevitably appears to cover any European event of first political importance...
...TWOULD be like pointing a brutal, misunderstanding finger at a youth in his first long trousers to criticise this small book of poems from a Conrad Aikenian standard. Gently they must be handled, delicately discerned to have appreciated the sensitive, self-conscious moods, the awkward, almost blushing moments...
Barry O'Neill as Tony is very suave, and Anthony Bushnell the likable, self-conscious watchdog of a lover,--all of which combine to make it one of the things not to be missed...