Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On a zooming 15-minute visit to the Press Photographers' show in Manhattan, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped to admire a large portrait. Asked a knowing guide: "Do you recognize him?" Surveying the picture of Wendell Willkie, she responded: "Oh yes, I remember him well."
So ended, happily enough in the circumstances, the seventh crash on U.S. airlines since last August, the second on Eastern Air Lines in 36 days. (While the ship was missing, the line's president, Eddie Rickenbacker, injured in the first E.A.L. accident, listened from his hospital bed at Atlanta...
>"As for Wells's opinions on things in general, I have never thought them worth attention any more than Bernard Shaw's. Both are clever impostors but Shaw has the advantage of knowing it."
Consequently her Job Mann is an even more resolute character than Ma Joad Determined to pull himself and his companions up from slime, malnutrition and poverty, he succeeds. If she sometimes belabors a point, ofttimes overwrites, Author Slade nevertheless carries her thesis -a quotation from her lawyer-husband, John A...
For this curious disorder, Dr. Cleckley has coined a fancy name: semantic dementia-meaning inability to grasp the ordinary meaning of life as lived by human beings. It is as though, behind the mask of sanity, the emotional mechanism had collapsed, leaving these semi-suicides incapable of love, joy, sorrow...