Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emilio Aguinaldo last appeared before the American public as a Philippine insurgent fighting for independence. Today, with the same ultimate object in view, but with peaceful intent, he is one of a delegation of prominent Filipinos sailing for Washington to lay before Congress a strong for absolute autonomy. The Wood report of last summer, declaring that the Philippines were not yet ready for independence, found very little favor in the islands, as was perhaps natural; and this question has for years been an issue between the two great American parties...
Records of debate in Congress are often searched by lawyers and historical writers. The former are interested to discover what they are pleased to call the "intent" of Congress in enacting a bill that afterward is brought into court. Historians try to run down the evidence respecting past events. They accept the contemporaneous testimony of senators as to the facts concerning social changes and the like. But one wonders what they would make of a passage in a Senate debate last week...
...that review not seem to exhibit a hopeless misapprehension of the author's intent, I should hardly be thus tempted to come to the defense of a work of art that can stand firmly on its own feet. Three Soldiers has stirred up almost as much controversy as admiration for its technical brilliance. Are we to condemn the author as one who has "distorted and besmirched" human life on the grounds offered by your reviewer...
...week at the Copley, is no exception to Shaw's rules. It is witty, intellectual and enjoyable; it tears down without building up; it makes mince-meat of "class" and "respectability"; and it leaves the mind in a whirl. We should like to believe that Shaw had a serious intent in pointing out so many flaws in the modern marriage system; indeed, there were not a few places where the lines spoke with startling earnestness. But then we should be taking G. B. S. seriously and he himself would in all probability be the first to laugh...
...using methods which were prejudicial to his best interests in order to win a football game from its rival. He wrote fearlessly and checked the practise--but as a result is "persona non grate to the football faculty of that institution and is set down as a man merely intent upon venting personal grievances...