Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them. On the night that Lethy, one of her half-sisters, kills the lover who has deserted her, Theodosia, seeing the parallel with her own experience, goes to the house made hateful to her by her father's unforgotten lusts. Under this final strain of horror, her mind crumbles into delirium. When she recovers, Theodosia goes to the country to live with her aunt. Here another nightmare threatens her with black hands. Her aunt, in the narrow bitterness of old age, sustains her hatred of life upon meager leathery biscuits. The house is overun with savage dogs, the descendants...
When Statesmen Quezon and Osmena saw and talked with President Coolidge they were disappointed. President Coolidge had changed his mind, he said, about transfer from military to civilian administration, just yet. True, the Philippines need much of a civilian nature-in agriculture, education, road building- but President Coolidge thought advisors from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Interior and Commerce could furnish such help at once without necessitating a transfer...
...first twelve chapters concern the source of the ideas, the opinions, the prejudices which now, being the common property of every American mind, explain the mental character of the U. S. The most important book in the schools was McGuffey's Eclectic Reader (of which there have been 122,000,000 copies sold). McGuffey, a gentle old pedant who received $1,000 for each of the six Readers in his series, remained a shadowy figure to his multitudinous public; for his death in 1873 no literary reviews, no editorial pages were boxed in heavy black. He remained, even...
...could not walk without help; he could only teeter on his toes. He could not hold pen, pencil or eating utensils; fellow students were obliged to write his notes and to feed him in the college dining-room. Although his mind was keen and he formed ideas clearly, he expressed himself with greatest difficulty. For studying his lessons (he was good in Greek, Latin, French), he had an apparatus built to hold his books...
...SERMONS-Margot Asquith- Doran ($2.50). Her alert countenance, her boundless arrogance, her crude curious argot, her inquisitive mind with its eagerness to disclose whatever trifles it may contain, have made the Countess of Oxford and Asquith famous. Her autobiography, published in 1922, was a mansion of closets, each inhabited by a dusty skeleton. The enormity of its sale was caused by a universal appetite for prying gossip; its result was an eagerness among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink...