Word: hindsighted
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...important to be delivered from memory. His white crest quivered with indignation and behind his spectacles his blue eyes gleamed resentfully. He was about to vent the full measure of his political bitterness, the full force of his distrust as as isolationist, and the full brilliance of disgruntled hindsight, upon the gentlemen who had conducted the country's international finance for the past decade. His speech summarized his conclusions on the Finance Committee's recent investigation of foreign loans. He had precipitated that inquiry, had cross-examined famed money lenders of Wall Street, had developed concrete arguments...
Popular support for precisely such investigation has been gathering headway as the result of a series of articles ("T Rescue of Germany," "As Noble Lenders," "Opening the Golden Goose") written by serious little Garet Garrett and published by the Saturday Evening Post. With excellent hindsight and a closely-woven argument Mr. Garrett has depicted U. S. finance recklessly dumping Other People's Money into Europe and then turning frantically to international politics to be rescued. Not satisfied with the Post's huge circulation of the Garrett theme, Francis Patrick Garvin, president of the Chemical Foundation and a good...
...clear perspective of hindsight he saw that it was not only wrong for him as an official of the Chinese Nationalist Government to have paid a camel-load of silver dollars to a bandit, but also that it would be morally wrong to allow the bandit to continue to exist. Governor Hu firmly resolved to exterminate the fellow...
...said with entire confidence that the position of the British Government with respect to naval limitation is exactly as stated by Sir Esme. But 24 hours after he spoke people with good hindsight could see that he had made a shocking blunder from the viewpoint of the Empire's Foreign Secretary, frigid, be-monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...racecourse on Long Island" (Jamaica) to see the world-challenging steed, Eclipse, race the Southern horse, Sir Henry, over no mere matter of furlongs but three four-mile heats, held half an hour apart. The crowd dwarfs even a modern world series throng, being estimated at 100,000. Shrewd hindsight permits the author to mark the event as foreshadowing a struggle that was to follow it in 40 years. It is the South against the North. Betting and feeling run high. Behind young Quincy sits the illustrious Congressional orator, John Randolph of Roanoke, pouting and shouting with grim intensity...