Word: insights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder if either the reviewer or Hibben has ever read Beecher's brilliant Yale lectures, or his marvelous sermons, replete with intellectual insight and humanity of feeling, or in fact anything that he ever wrote, with an open mind...
Points from Primo de Rivera's statement merely noted that Sir Austen "is a charming host and a clever politician, possessing a truly amazing insight into international affairs. ... I am fast becoming of the opinion that Spain would be better off without her interests there (Morocco) . . . but it is always dangerous to relinquish possessions to another power unless some satisfactory compromise can be arranged. It is that that Sir Austen may arrange...
...received by President Doumergue of France, whom he assured that New York City would keep on growing for generations. ¶ Was not, despite excited advance notices by his friends, decorated with the Legion of Honor. ¶ Announced in one breath: "I feel myself enormously benefited by the insight into foreign municipal processes which was afforded me by this trip. ... In each [city] I found much to admire and many things of profound interest. . . . Summing up my impressions, I am bound to say that New York City contrasts more than favorably with the cities I have seen over here." ¶ Shouted...
...purpose is to represent my country to Canada, and at the same time I hope to get an insight into your attitude toward the empire. I've got a strenuous tour ahead of me. What we in Europe value most in the New World is that sense of hope which we get when we come here...
...means badly written, by no means devoid of interest, The Mallets, like Miss Young's last book William, is lifted above the commonplace by those valuable staples, sympathy and insight. These staples are sufficiently in evidence to make many readers of English novels, eaters of English muffins, consume this sturdy literary muffin and find it good...