Word: egos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the Communist Party of Soviet Russia, the Nationalist Party of China is the supreme political ego of China, tolerates no rival groups, deals out political sentences in open meeting by the vote of a well-heeled majority...
...fortunately, I identified it early. And furthermore, we enjoy a certain social position in the community. The name I am signing to this letter is not the one which appears on my business letterhead, as I use this one only in connection with an endeavor in which my "alter ego" is known. This is the first time I have ever written the facts of my little peculiarity for publication. Fortunately I was able to find out what had bitten me before it drove me into difficulties. Let us hope that the young man in Boston is not sent...
...herself. She sued for $200,000 libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted and disappointed conceit against an individual in particular and society and law generally, and cannot seriously affect the opinion of rational individuals, yet since the words are patently libellous per se, and obviously refer to the plaintiff, despite the adroit...
...much eagerness among Mr. Hoover's "assistants" for appointment as Secretary to the President. The main aspirants are George Akerson, Lawrence Richey, George Barr Baker. If the House agrees to the Senate's increase, Mr. Hoover will be able to care for all three-Akerson as alter ego; Baker as White House Spokesman; Richey as factfinder...
...problem in this case is essentially that of the jealous husband, who sternly, illogically resents any influence upon his wife's life which is extraneous from the elemental man-woman relationship. He is jealous of his wife's bridge clubs, golf, children; his is a supremely introversive ego. This good piece recounts the story of John Payson, green-ired husband of Nan. John (John Boles) wants to lead his wife's life. From an afternooon party Nan (Leatrice Joy) comes home befuddled, having been locked accidentally in the wine-cellar of Jules Moret (H. B. Warner) whose...