Word: indirectness
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...held any longer in contempt!" cried Manhattan's feministic Miss Doris Stevens. "Nationality determines allegiance. It is considered of such supreme importance that men are asked to give their lives in its defense. Yet of so little importance is the allegiance of women that it exists only as an indirect relation determined by the nationality of her husband or father. Women will not much longer stand for this...
...pride in his job, nor does he become devoted to the boss directly over him. Yet last week perhaps a few of the natives working on some 46,000 acres of Goodyear Rubber Plantation Co.'s Sumatran rubber land heard of a change in bosses, of indirect, remote bosses, for it became known that control of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has definitely passed to the Cyrus Stephen Eaton-Otis & Co. interests...
...social order, Mr. Young on the other hand can be accused of tiring the reader at many times during the book with repetition of scenes which add little to the final affect and make what should be a long short story a full sized novel. The characterization is all indirect and is best in the presentation of the Major's two maiden sisters, who command at the same time the reader's respect and his pity...
...Neither J. P. Morgan & Company, nor, so far as they know, any of the companies in which they have any interest, direct or indirect, have taken any position for or against public or private ownership of the St. Lawrence River water power or the matter of its development...
...Chile and Peru; Bolivia's protestations were ignored. But the U. S. State Department let it be known that Bolivia was quite at liberty to make any arrangements with Chile that she could. Before Bolivia could get up momentum for a renewed appeal, Chile last week issued an indirect but nonetheless effective quasher. Her Minister to Uruguay abruptly announced: "My country brings to a close all of her frontier problems. None remains now to be contemplated...