Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancellor's intent was apparently to conciliate the Right, which opposes Germany's entrance into the League until more concessions have been extracted from the Allies. He succeeded so badly that he was hissed and booed from both the Right and the Left, and received not so much as a single handclap from the Centre, which comprises his "Little Coalition...
...intent on waging class war over cups, and saucers, the Evening Standard made reply to its contemporary. It uncarthed a dinner given two weeks ago by the Soviet delegation in London: and labelled it a feast of Lucullus. With watering mouth and rising temperature, the author of the reply listed the vintages arrayed before the Russians: Sauterne, claret, champagne port, brandy, and vodka. It drew the moral that a society tea is but a quick lunch beside a good, luscious, Bolsheviki spread...
Koch. Much interest centered upon a last minute fight, early in the week, between the German Democratic Party, which had got its leader, Herr Erich Koch, into Dr. Luther's "tentative Cabinet" (TIME, Jan. 25), and the Bavarian People's Party, which was intent on getting him out again. The Bavarians denounced Herr Koch as an "arch-unionist" who would take away the "sectional rights" appertaining to the various states of the German Republic. Eventually they forced him to allow another member of his party, Herr Kuelz, to receive the Interior portfolio, which Herr Koch had formerly demanded...
...London and died in the part. This was some time ago, and the play as currently revealed suffers slightly from the passage of time. It is about inter-racial marriage, a subject on which views have changed so radically of late. The old Jewish father in the play is intent on dissuading his daughter from her intended marriage to a wholly eligible gentile. He finds, however, that she has been visiting the young man of nights and ferociously changes his opinion...
...problems are not easy. The obstacles placed by selfish and corrupt influences do not disappear with the blast of a trumpet. The ordinary citizen is intent on his own business. He is hard to arouse and to keep aroused to the fact that good city government is good business and that the small favors he receives from political machines are dearly bought...