Word: ego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House, and it did seem very imposing and things seemed to buzz exceedingly. And again the Vagabond thought how warm it must be in winter and how cold the Tower. But the students who strolled indifferently about the court did seem most cold and concerned only with their gentlemanly ego. The Vagabond wondered whether he dare go in-for he's a sensitive soul and ill-versed in indifference. But he was asked to the exhibition of modern European art-and the Vagabond does love art very much. But alas...
...those signs of acceptance, respectability and achievement emboldened the composite ego of the 1,500 osteopaths who attended the Cleveland convention. President George J. Conley, 64, of Kansas City, who is a doctor of medicine as well as of osteopathy, declared: "The allopathic school of medicine is appropriating the grosser aspects of the osteopathic concepts and is unfairly exploiting them without due credit, as originating in their own minds, under the names of 'body mechanics,' 'applied physiology,' 'postural abnormalities...
...title of business manager did small justice to Louis Wiley's journalistic functions. No mere countingroom man, he was Publisher Adolph Ochs's confidant, adviser, ambassador, and on occasion, alter ego. Just short of 40 years ago he first approached Mr. Ochs, who had bought the moribund Times, persuaded the publisher to hire him at $40 a week. He was then 26, and had pulled himself up from $6-a-week reporter to business manager of the Rochester Post-Express. He had much to do with the Times's prosperity and with its rigidly high standards...
However, the girls go on to say "he is average, not particularly interesting, enjoys carefree simple pleasures, and has a high opinion of his athletic prowess." The terse comments leave us to draw what crumbs of satisfaction we can in asserting our ego...
...exploiter, eventually merged. Leopold guarded his health, ate well, drank large quantities of hot water, hated his wife for bearing him daughters, took many mistresses, raised fruit, read the London Times, vied with Bismarck in his talent for official propaganda, worked from dawn to dusk. To support the ego of this promoter-king, black men were mauled by leopards, ripped by thorns, drenched by tropical storms, lashed by callous or vicious agents, cheated at the scales when they brought in their rubber, and kept in perpetual slavery by a "rubber tax" which had to be worked out in default...