Word: minded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manager Aldworth's mind, the man more than the machine was the cause of the casualties. Newark police have charged Pilot Lou Foote with manslaughter...
...present philosophy of the Occidental world, with its gospel of self-assertion and self-expression, personal liberty and personal success." Beside him, on the stage, white lilies curved from the mouths of six vases. "Christ's stern and gentle philosophy, so much more readily understood by the Oriental mind, is the way of self-abnegation, of losing oneself in something beyond oneself." Occasionally, an Indian name came to his lips, hesitant syllables cascaded to a tenebrous penult: Rabindranath Tagore. Sometimes he men- tioned Mahatma Gandhi. Then he seemed to look beyond his audience to India "which is my first love...
...more than eight years after his first Indian venture that the cumulus of his experiences, reactions, volitions suddenly crystallized in his mind into what was tantamount to a vision. Figuratively he saw the Galilean walking along an Indian road. He must offer the Christ, not in a Western setting, to which by historic accident he seemed to belong, but in an Indian setting. Thereafter, mostly among the quiet intellectual Brahmans but also among the outcastes, he preached the Christ, not Western, but universal. Him they would accept because they had spiritual accord with the mysticism of his life and suffering...
...funny how some little thing, irrelevant to the general scheme of the play, catches your fancy and stays in mind long after the rest of the spectacle has vanished. An example of this is one Franker Woods, as the program has him. If we were not dead certain from accounts in the daily press that Fred Stone is at present a broken-legged individual, or at best a golfing convalescent, we would go up to this Mr. Woods, and holding him gently between the thumb and forefinger say "You are Fred Stone!" For never have we seen such a resemblance...
...Minor. The first article was met with a storm of criticism from Lincoln experts, who cried "Forgery!" after reading the documents quoted by Miss Minor. The second article brought still more protests fluttering to the desk of Editor Ellery Sedgwick. Editor Sedgwick, digesting the criticisms and keeping an open mind, published the third and last article. Most vehement among the critics of the Minor collection was Paul M. Angle, Executive Secretary of the Lincoln Centennial Association of Springfield, Ill., who admitted his delight at the opportunity to "put the magazine of the country in the frying pan and cook...