Word: intentional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he described himself as intent upon "a short visit to America taken purely for my health," and diplomatically declared: "America is marching in front today in literature. There is no denying her that position. It is all very well to talk against it and rave against...
...Majesty calls Dr. Ninko Peritch, President of the Narodna Skupstina (Parliament), to negotiate among all parties with intent to evolve a broad coalition Cabinet. Dr. Paritch is of the so-called "Radical" party-actually reactionary and ultra Serbian...
...best beloved. He will go to the South Seas, find some pearls, sell them and use the money to launch her as an actress. Soon after the departure of her inamorata, the lady herself makes big money in musical comedy. In part, she owes her success to an intent but unscrupulous young man-about-town who has stolen the money to pay for her theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas to kill his rival but remains to convince him that the lady has deceived both of them in her greed...
...been most gratifying to witness the increasing interchange of university professors and the constantly growing stream of student migration from one country to another. . . . It is not desirable that we should attempt to be all alike. . . . We should all be intent on maintaining our own institutions and customs, preserving the purity of our own language and literature, fostering the ideals of our own culture and society. In a territory reaching from the north temperate zone?? through the tropics to the South Pole, there is room enough for every worthy activity which is profitable and every ideal which is good...
...minutes late, into his box at polo, at the horseshow, at the theatre, at prizefights. Recognizing him at these events, casual acquaintances wonder when he finds time to do his work. They would probably fail to identify his round gay face of a somewhat sophisticated cherub with the intent, solemn, face which, late at night has been seen bending over Robert Clarkson's desk...