Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early as she could remember, Christabel Caine was conscious of her beauty, conscious of her power to make people serve her and adore her. When she writes a book of poetry that achieves success, new horizons open up before her. Leaving a flock of dear old doting Quaker aunts, she departs for New York to be Bohemian...
...they are at our door, not only owing to their fecundity, but also because they are becoming race conscious and feel they have a future in the world...
...same, Hunger Fighters is a trustworthy though ebullient account of certain other men of science, unappreciated breeders of sturdy grain, students of cattle diseases, discoverers of fashionable vitamins. If the author coyly attributes an exasperated scientist with a few cusswords, or jazzes his pages with other self-conscious slang, it is but in his honest endeavor to educate a sugar-coated public. He makes the best of the highspots: In stamping out the virulent hoof-and-mouth disease one inconspicuous scientist had millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations. In the hilly...
...easy to be married to a national cynosure. Persons who watched Mrs. Coolidge preparing to return from secluded Brule for another autumn and winter in busy, coming-and-going official Washington, guessed that she did so with a certain conscious gathering of her forces...
...studded) with the authentic air of a peeress supporting a tiara. Such gracious poise, when supported by copious and persuasive League small talk, has converted many a Manhattan parson, brought round numerous editors and educators, and secured-hearty cooperation from dozens of distinguished persons who were not previously "League conscious...