Word: content
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval Limitations Parley* is developing into an Anglo-American struggle for supremacy. . . . Great Britain's attitude reveals her wish to remain the foremost naval power. . . . America says, rather hysterically, that .she will never be content with an inferior navy...
...book has had a sale over which even a Communist might not be able to conceal his satisfaction. The Story of Oil!, like all Mr. Sinclair's stories, has appeared at length in the newspapers. Also it has been picked up and messed with for its political content by Samuel Hopkins Adams, a third-rate novelist, author of Revelry. It is the story of the Oil scandal, the Ohio Gang and the late President Harding, dragged out again and jumbled in with a lot of other sensational copy - the evangelic vaga ries of Aimee Semple McPherson, athletic professionalism...
...Content with vow and pledge alone...
...usurper of those jewels, Lord Elgin, was not content with many masterpieces alone, but tore away and transported to England one of the six caryatids and one of the six columns of the eastern portico of the Erechtheum." The writer bitterly asks the British Government to restore these two pieces, adding that he knows it would be useless to claim the heart of the collection...
...scholar requires some satisfaction and the public, little is it may sympathize, deserves to be shown, now and again, what even its most secluded inhabitants have been doing. Most scholars are in the habit of reaching at least their scholastic confreres with their published opinions. Most are actually content with stopping here, content with fame among those who will study and preserve their works to another generation of students. By the time that this fame has been attained, moreover, long seclusion and advanced age has usually, deadened the empty, and impulsive desire for mere note. The scholar lives happily...