Word: distrusting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...official carfare will be taken from him to furnish the money with which to pay the "reward". But you cannot act in a custard-pie comedy without coming into contact with some of the pie. At any rate, it does seem small for the rest of us to distrust a nation that is making so honest an effort to be ingenuously amusing...
...solution. In order that Phi Beta Kappa may enjoy equally with other organizations the respect of the law, let the first forty policemen of every city be elected to membership. Immediately a brotherly affection will spring up between the police and the students. The old feeling of mutual distrust will vanish and hitherto embarrassing situations will become matters between friends...
...Whereas the nations of the world, already impoverished by past war and confronted by the urgent social and economic problems bred by war, have entered on an unprecedented scale into the race for military and naval supremacy which makes for mutual distrust and war rather than for mutual understanding and peace...
...literary excellence, but also for the message of joy, faith and promise that each poem carries." Probably there is a place for this sort of thing; we are acquainted with several middling-to-elderly ladies to whom it is the breath of life--at intervals. But personally we distrust poetry with an avowed message. Experience has taught us that all too often it forgets to be poetry at all, while the deepest, truest, clearest message comes from the poetry which pretends to be nothing more. So, if someone gives you the book, you will read it through, sigh. "Thank...
...will eventually outgrow our present legislative system. Accordingly two alternatives remain; resting responsibility with the Executive or inventing a new method of representation through legislation. At present the former is rapidly gaining recognition, and no overtures of any consequence have been made for the latter. People have come to distrust the practicability of making innumerable laws for the regulation of society. The plan which satisfied the demands of the comparatively simple order of our forefathers cannot long endure the complexities of the present time. It will be part of our work to make the transition safely...