Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long and intent looks from columnists and party bigwigs for the first time last weekend only because it showed that the organized third force in the United States was more now than a collection of the traditional parlor liberals talking to themselves...
What was originally a worthless minority of four anti-Plan E votes on the City Council now looms as the strongest group. The unexpected fratricide among reformists has proved a strategic godsend to the men intent on discrediting Plan E and proportional representation in the eyes of the electorate. PR forces a candidate before the entire city for re-election instead of allowing him the relative security of a small well-organized Ward. Such a plan constitutes a direct menace to professional politicos like Sullivan, Foley, Sennott, and Neville. Their political futures demand an inoperative government and a continuing stalemate...
...fantasy, allegory, and sentiment was a demonstration of brilliant skill and showmanship. "Magic Town," on the other hand, aims for sentiment and achieves mawkishness; it reaches out for allegory and it grasps chaos and incongruity. And, to round out the comparison, although it appears to have scarcely any intent of being a fantasy, and certainly has none of the elements characteristic of a good fantasy, it seldom seems to be anything else...
Crime in the Afternoon. In Venice, Calif., a burglar intent on robbing the home of Mrs. George Blackmer: 1) tied up Mrs. Blackmer and two visiting ladies, 2) answered the doorbell and bound Neighbor Kenneth Thompson, 3) untied one of the ladies to quiet a squalling baby, 4) answered the doorbell and tied up a salesman, 5) walked out, muttering...
...there was any doubt about his political intent, it was exploded by one big switch in his political philosophy. After having twice vetoed Republican tax-cut bills, the President suddenly offered a tax-reduction plan of his own. He proposed a flat $40 tax cut for every taxpayer (and each dependent), to be balanced by in creased corporation rates (from 38% to approximately 50%). The President's plan would not change the total of existing revenues. But it would give some tax relief to low-income taxpayers (who vote), and take it out of the hides of corporations...