Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearings ended, Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, subcommittee chairman, disagreed with O'Mahoney. Flanders, who said he had gone into the hearings with an open mind, concluded: "There seems to be better justification for profits than I had expected...
...Siragusa is a console combination of a shrewd mind, a sharp eye for a deal and a glib tongue. He sold his car and furniture for a new grubstake in radios. Adding such other products as refrigerators, electric ranges, etc., he made Admiral Corp. into a $12 million property with eleven plants...
...latest episode in the Perils of Errol (Flynn). In this chapter, Errol is knee-deep in the intrigues of the Spanish court of Philip III and neck-deep in its lavish costumes. He is also once again a rascal with a 14-karat heart and a 1-karat mind. His intentions are high, true and gallant. His planning could at best be called faulty; it usually ends with Errol on the cold side of the dungeon walls and the villains holding the keys...
Harried Capital. As brisk, top-of-the-mind journalism, The Grand Design is fun. Dos Passos has fixed his sights on New Deal Washington, located its telltale landmarks: harried officials, their minds cross-grained with idealism and opportunism; ascetic lunches, reflecting the prevalence of ulcers; gaps of hollow loneliness between lunges of ambition; and pure-souled efforts of some men to serve their country without profit...
...disciple, Dmitri Kouyoumdjian, to "start a new life in a new spirit. Won't you come . . . too?" he begged, "& be president of us?" But Bertie apparently wouldn't budge; and the British government refused Lawrence a passport. Disciple Kouyoumdjian was also a disappointment: he changed both his mind and his name, stayed on in England and became "Michael Arlen" of a bestseller called The Green...