Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flight with Colonel Lindbergh. The writers of those letters were lacking in dignity. TIME also showed itself lacking in dignity to print them. You have no business to use your magazine as a medium for making personal suggestions to the President of the United States. I have no doubt that Colonel Lindbergh would be a safe pilot for any man, great or small; but that is no reason why President Coolidge should have his life made more difficult with continual nagging...
...only apparent reason for a further airing of the unfortunate affair was no doubt to satisfy a personal grudge against the father of the boys...
...There is little reason to think that Secretary Hoover is this candidate. No doubt Mr. Hoover has a great personal following. Probably on a Nation-wide poll of Republicans he would easily lead all the available leaders, barring Mr. Coolidge, himself. But the trouble with Mr. Hoover's following is that it is diffused, that it is politically unorganized, that it is not concentrated in the strategic centres...
...your home, preferably that night. But we failed to notice any patrons of the Plymouth writhing in their chairs. In the first act, a young boy remarks that he likes his women firm, and someone else makes a comment about the gypsy's "bust and hips". That no doubt will be cut by the censors, and except for a spot in the third act where the son of the house is seen emerging by the light of dawn from the b-droom of the gypsy, there is little indeed that ought to worry the Watch and Ward...
...saloon-ridden Ohio town, survived two flesh-and-blood wives and one great War, and reaped as reward a luxurious country-club parish in the "Gilt-edged suburb of America." His pulpit thunderings were consistently concerned with Faith, and helped considerably to deaden his own still small voice of doubt. But Ann, his modernist daughter, suspected him of puritanical hypocrisy, and flung herself the more violently into a materialistic existence that was promiscuous, not to say debauched. McGreggor, sensual himself, imagined her life as accurately as it is possible for a Victorian to imagine looseness; but did not take...