Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ignored. At the President's press conference, last week, questions dealing with "the Houghton incident" were pointedly ignored by "the White House spokesman" (i. e., Calvin Coolidge). The "spokesman" did disclose, however, that the administration has not been dissuaded from its announced intent of sending a U. S. representative to the preliminary League disarmament conference...
...that premised nineteen centuries ago. For the oracular omniscience from Brooklyn has placed a syndicated wreath on the grave of the supreme liar of history. The dramatic example which clinches the justification of lying further serves to revivify the long-dead Ananias. Were a man chasing a woman with intent to kill and the woman slipped down a side street unobserved. Dr. Caedmon asserts that he would feel no scruples in misdirecting her pursuer...
...only issue of any consequence so far created is the World Court. The Progressive Republicans seem intent to press this as far as they can against regular Republicans in states where there is irreconcilable sentiment, such states as Wisconsin and Illinois...
...intent upon obscuring with a strange glorification of its new tools, their beneficial intensification of its life. Yet it takes but little detachment and contemplation to minimize the importance of these inventions while still recognizing their value. They are not necessary to life. They but facilitate extensive and intensive living. An automobile is a better cart; the radio and the moving pictures provide a keener hearing and a farther sight. They are valuable wherein they increase the sensations and hence broaden the conclusions of life, which has always been a thing of sensation and conclusion. And he who receives...
...holds water. Since his sensational escape to Germany from the U.S. his escapades have put the German authorities to all sorts of trouble, notably on Aug. 11, 1923, when he shot and killed one member of a group of men who attempted to kidnap him at Eberbach with intent to bring him back within the reach of the U. S. courts...