Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians have done a terrible thing. I have always had an open mind about Communism. But Molotov has closed the door to a better living standard for his own people. And any system which cannot stand fair competition from another system is a bad one. Of course, France must go ahead...
...bustards (and George Earle) have been practically forgotten in Pennsylvania. Last week, however, the Austrian Government had bustards on its mind. The Socialists had passed a law nationalizing hunting in the province of Carinthia. Large estates were to be subdivided into small parcels for the season, and one huntsman assigned to each by the authorities. Everyone, said the Socialists, deserved a chance in these hard times to shoot himself a bustard or a buck...
...hope she can do what she promises." Pomaded young executives in the Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin in the least; many of us descended from poor immigrants, but there are other considerations." In the American Club, U.S. businessmen snickered knowingly over the old unprintable gags, as they followed Eva in the daily papers. And befurred society women stopped time & again to tell each other...
...wooden absorption with creating the stone flower to the neglect of his unkissed bride and an amorous fairy queen, will for a while make you wonder about him. And Hollywoodisms creep in: the background music continually dictates what mood you must get in for upcoming scenes. And the seeking mind can read Significance into several episodes: someone scored a dialectical coup in presenting a smirking, opulent nobleman who rewards the hero, who has won for him a 500 thousand ruble bet, by giving him a ruble...
Hermanns compared the present German mind to two drawers, one of which contains the Bible, Faust, Shakespeare's plays and a general knowledge of literature, while the other contains Mein Kampf, the works of Bismark and Frederick the Great, and the legends of the Teutonic Knights. In moments of crisis the German, Hermmans continued, discards the first drawer as "foreign thought values" and turns to the drawer which glorifies...