Word: consciousnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover took an afternoon off and went to a ball game. It was the New York "Yankees," American League leaders, visiting the Washington "Senators." The Nominee sat himself down in Club-President Clark Griffith's box-the box where Presidents sit at Washington ball games. He was scarcely conscious of an event which feature-writers made into the sensation...
Suavely King Amanullah addressed the 700. A despot, he can charm with honeyed words. He did. Perspiring patriarchs ceased to wriggle in their pants, succumbed to royal blandishments, beamed when King Amanullah implied that their high destiny is to make Afghanistan pants-conscious...
There is a self-concealing habit about Nominee Hoover's mind at its self-conscious moments. As a result, people are more surprised than otherwise when they discover, in Hoover speeches or reports or quoted from personal correspondence, sentences and sentiments which have unmistakably come from the natural man who lives somewhere inside the Beaver...
...buyer is passing, that of the stylist beginning. But not all expensive stores are abreast of the merchandizing times. Leaders among fashion-conscious shops are Macy's (Manhattan department store), Woolworth's (5-and-10 cent chain stores...
...Strangely, the subconscious took the place of the conscious. I lived in the past of 12 or 15 years ago. I remember to minute details things that happened then, things I had said and places where I had been. But the present was gone...