Word: intents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been subject to abuse by commercial interests. National Prune Week, Drink More Sauerkraut Juice Week, Mothers Day, Dads Day and other similar phenomena can all be traced to high pressure advertising. The hypocritical effusions of florists, telegraph companies, and haberdashers on such occasions are obvious enough in their intent to all but the softer minded and more naive devotees of Edgar Guest and other purveyors of mental pap. In a similar manner one might justifiably suspect that the backers of American Education are not altogether altruistic. A little publicity is always a profitable thing especially when connected with such...
Running through the defense of the Crimson plays was the first order of the drill. Contrary to the usual proceedings the Varsity players took the part of the Harvard team for a short time and ran the Crimson formations with the intent to thoroughly familiarize themselves with the Harvard attack...
...stories less credible than my play On The Spot." When a young London shoemaker, one Arthur Cox, was hailed into Old Bailey for shooting at two bobbies (whom he missed), the Magistrate showed himself Legs-conscious. After sentencing Shoemaker Cox to ten years' penal servitude for "shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm," Mr. Justice Wright said: "It would be an unfortunate thing for this country if the use of firearms became common. I feel it the duty of this court to visit such conduct as the prisoner's with condign punishment. I hope the sentence will...
...impossible promises are good politics, why not impossible demands? With shrewd vote-getting intent the Saxon Diet voted 82 to 12 a demand that the German Government "immediately initiate negotiations for revision of the Young Plan" (i. e., for reduction of German Reparations payments). Similarly if the New York State Legislature thought that their constituents wanted the moon, they might vote that President Herbert Hoover must go mooning...
...wine, that U. S. annual wine consumption has risen to 118,329,300 gal. from 52,418,430 gal. in 1914, he spoke again. He explained that any big sale of grapes for wine-making would encounter trouble from his Bureau. He said: "It is all a question of intent. . . . Even the sale of large amounts of sugar to a person known to be using it for liquor-making would be unlawful...