Word: idealist
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...Brave. Elisabet herself never did anything but charge, always prematurely. If she was not brave it is because that virtue cannot be ascribed to anyone who has never suspected the existence of fear. She was tall, milk-fleshed, redhaired, chokingly beautiful. She was-she thought-an intense idealist...
Alling (literally: "Friendly Life") Soong had married Dr. H. H. Kung, longtime Minister of Finance. In China Mme. Kung was known for her wealth. She was grave, efficient, strongwilled. Ching-ling ("Happy Life") was the idealist, the incarnation of the spirit of her late husband, Sun Yatsen. She was in ways the most beautiful, but she was incredibly shy. Mei-Ling ("Beautiful Life") was certainly the personality of the three. At the end of their Hong Kong reunion, all three went to Chungking and much was made of the United Soong Front...
This pronouncement, from the planner closest to President Roosevelt, from a New Deal "idealist" whose views have been suspect by individualists, is likely to reassure individualists, here & abroad, that plans for world cooperation will not be twisted into some strange new socialistic way of life. It should permit domestic issues to be decided on their own merits, without reference to the old emotion-charged tags of "isolationist" or "interventionist...
...from the traditional forgotten man, Vice-President Wallace is the target of more scathing attacks than any man on the Washington front. Mainly as a result of two speeches, he is being called everything from a misguided idealist to an out-and-out Communist...
...traced to failure of the United Nations to supply a dynamic post-war policy. To Author Louis Adamic, speaking for the land of his birth, Yugoslavia today is a testing ground for all of post-war Europe. In a pamphlet amplifying a recent article in the Saturday Evening Post, Idealist Adamic spoke up with all the burning eloquence of a man whose mother and nine brothers and sisters are still somewhere in Yugoslavia...