Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discovered I owned a copy of S. J.'s "Dream Department," a bottle of ink-eradicator, and twelve reams of graph paper. The ink-eradicator and the graph paper I was able to fob off on some Woolworth jobber who was loitering around the Square, but my better judgment whispered to me that the tome "Dream Department" was a priceless item, not to be offered for blood or money...
...Halve & Halve Not. In Chicago, Emily Sekoskey, who complained in court that her boy friend had put off paying his share of their Dutch treats for four years and then married somebody else, won a $179.89 judgment against him for half of 250 purchases, including a package of pistachio nuts, a bag of potato chips, a Mother's Day card, and an ice-cream cone...
Conrad's lame English wife Jessie "was without exception the best and most perfect woman I have ever had the good fortune to know. . . . She was not intellectual, but hers was that wisdom of quiet, unassumed, penetrating judgment of people and situations, the well-balanced poise of mind, which is found among old and very honorable people." To Conrad, "she was wife, mother and guardian, besides being his secretary and assistant in his work." During Conrad's frequent bouts with acute malaria and gout, he could endure no nursing except hers (though, with a desperate...
...political side of the problem Gandhi stated to the Marquess of Linlithgow in a recent exchange of letters: "If I don't survive the ordeal I shall go to the judgment seat with the fullest faith in my innocence. Posterity will judge between you as the representative of an all-powerful Government and me as the humble man who tried to serve his country and humanity through...
...kind of Messiah who was expected." The Jews wanted their Messiah to be not only good but a national and triumphant hero who would fulfill history from their special point of view. Instead, Jesus shocked the righteous by teaching that they were, in the final judgment, unrighteous...