Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first blush, the orthodox economists and experts thought they saw only confusion in the plan for a commodity standard, but they overlooked a much more essential point in the President's policy. It is his rejection of the idea of devaluing the dollar by changing the gold content at this time...
This line of reasoning has been urged upon the President for several weeks in opposition to the plan for an immediate stabilization, which would have meant fixing the gold content of the dollar at 66 cents...
...philosophy of life is expressed in loamy phrases and one finds no deep probing into causes and effects of the fantastic people and events he sets down for us in his reportorial style. He presents his factual data and is quite content with that alone. The journalistic tendency is marked because it is probable the author has made extensive use of newspaper files to refresh his memory. Facetiously, one might say, "this cop remembers" with the excellent aid of police records and the friends he has made during the length of his career...
...dilemma, the happy touchstone of our hopes and quietus to our fears. The nine million of which the 200,000 are only a small part need not encumber the wagon; they will each have a platted farm, and from every platted farm will come the loud hosannas of their content...
...arrested for breaking into the postoffice. Clint went quietly until a "foreign" deputy put handcuffs on him; then he bided his time, made a break and got away. He would have been safe enough in the hills, hiding among his friends and kinsfolk, but soon he was not content to hide. He began to believe that Tillie was unfaithful; they quarreled, and when his uncle's still was raided, Ozark logic said the Starbucks were at the bottom of it. Clint joined the drumming-out party that drove Tillie and her father out of the hills, and in that...