Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These agencies can facilitate thought and discussion. They can stifle it. ... They can debase and vulgarize mankind. They can endanger the peace of the world; they can do so accidentally, in a fit of absence of mind. They can play up or down the news and its significance, foster and feed emotions, create complacent fictions and blind spots, misuse the great words, and uphold empty slogans. [They] . . . can spread lies faster and farther than our forefathers dreamed. . . ." They can, said the Commission, and they...
Fulham's new bishop expects to have his hands full replacing aging chaplains and refurbishing war-blasted churches. But "I think it's a very nice job," said he last week. "After all-would you mind going to St. Moritz next winter...
...Floaters-famed entertainers with no radio shows of their own (Al Jolson, Tallulah Bankhead, Bea Lillie) who don't mind picking up a few grand on someone else's. Jolson is currently the most-hitched-to star in radio. He recently upped Bing Crosby's Hooper 4.9 points, boosted Eddie Cantor's a full 5. Offered a show of his own, Jolson declined: he can make too much money guesting-with no worries over script and sponsor. At week's end, Jolson signed for ten appearances on the Crosby show next fall-$50,000 guaranteed...
...watched awestruck as he passed on the street, "strange looking, with dark, sorcerer's eyes." Later, when they became acquainted, she found him rather a snob, affecting the "grand air of a Renaissance prince" and sometimes even failing in "ordinary good manners." But "I never knew a greater mind or a greater man, one with such all-round endowments...
Deep down he was "a very lonely man who paid dearly .for his fame," says Mrs. Colum. "His voice would be so charged with emotion, so full of ... yearning for a life he could never have . . . that one saw there were whole regions of his mind that could only be expressed in music. . . . He had no such large voice as John McCormack, who had won the competition they both had entered.* But for emotional expressiveness Joyce was the most effective singer I have ever heard...