Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill was passed (TIME, Feb. 5) gold has been flowing into the U. S. from abroad at a record-breaking rate. Imports for the past fortnight totalled over $300,000,000, exceeding the all-time high of $159,600,000 in December 1916 (even allowing for the decreased gold content of the dollar...
...made it clear that he is in love with chubby Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the dreamy fiancee of young Corrado de Catolica. When he becomes a shadow again at the end of three days, Prince Sirki takes Grazia with him, wrapped in his cloak. The impossibility of assaying the philosophic content, if any, of the play by Alberto Casella from which this picture was adapted does not diminish the charm of Death Takes a Holiday. It remains a serious poetic riddle, imperfect, thoughtful, delicately morbid...
...injustice, or has this matter of foreign population, supposed to work in favor of Iowa, been counted as against it? Wisconsin is much more German, much more Scandinavian, than Iowa--and that seems to confess the German stock stronger than the Yankee. And now Minnesota, with its strong Scandinavian content. That State has already a Norwegian college--an American center of a purely Norwegian culture. No doubt we shall have some Norwegian "fellows" at Harvard, in the new sense of the word as we already have them in the American. Well, nobody will object to them. We shall extend...
...away was his wholesale conviction of all airlines without giving any of them a hearing. His motives might have been of the best. He may have been trying to inject a high sense of morals into Government contracts. But his methods found few informed advocates. Many a citizen was content to believe that his President could do no wrong, but there were plenty of others who suspected that his action and his failure to explain it to the country were part of a general Administrative attempt to blacken the preceding Republican Administration and thereby make political ammunition for the November...
...rotgut, occasionally made his confession. In his weaker moments Studs sometimes asked himself what the hell it was all about, even fell in love with a nice girl. But the nice girl married somebody else and Studs's musings never came to anything. By & large he was well content to be one of the boys and proud of his reputation as a hard guy. Then the neighborhood began to lose caste with an invasion of Negroes. When the Lonigans moved out the old gang broke up. On a sentimental journey back to his boyhood streets Studs saw that...