Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former premier and present Labor leader, expressed some views on the relationship of the New World with the old. Mr. MacDonald made two suggestions. The first is that it is foolish to believe that international differences are non-existent, and the ex-premier feels that a "nasty frame of mind is growing up" which must be faced at once. The second recommendation is that the situation cannot be effectively treated by means of "old European policies and diplomacies", this recommendation being based on the specific instance of Lord Derby's invitation to Senator Borah to visit Europe Mr. MacDonald understands...
...that this phenomenon if discovered, will probably be something infinitely old but in modern dress. Unfortunately the moralizing to which this problem is so often and so easily subjected is particularly ineffective. It is to be hoped that men in Mr. MacDonald's position and of his turn of mind will not forever be content with the mere discovery that the world is very much like the unfortunate but rather common individual who doesn't know what he wants and won't be happy till he gets...
...voted that an inquisitor and four aides should proceed, as urged by Inquisitor Walsh, to explore the character and practices of light, gas and power corporations doing interstate business or controlled by holding corporations in other states. Political as well as financial practices were in Inquisitor Walsh's mind, "to determine whether these have been other Insulls." Many a State's attitude toward the impending Power Probe was voiced by Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, who said: "The people of Ohio will resist any effort by Congress to usurp their rights in utility regulation...
...deep carpeted downtown offices majestic attorneys reading Justice Proskauer's suggestion went into conference with their consciences. A lawyer is retained to win cases for his clients. Many a potent legal mind has found fame and money in acquittals for clients of whose guilt he must have been morally assured...
...reason of its length. Playwright O'Neill re-introduced the aside, mainstay of earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile performer spoke what was rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult at first to grasp, soon blended into the engrossing...