Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward Terry Sanford, 62, the third Harding appointee, was once president of the Harvard Alumi Association. A Tennesseean with affiliations ranging from Phi Beta Kappa to Kiwanis, he ranges back & forth between liberalism and conservatism with the open mind of one who sat on district benches for 15 years...
...idea is to bring a girl to the state of mind where she will look at a dirty floor in her home, not with a groan and a thought of how she may escape tidying it up. On the contrary, she will look at a dirty floor with critical eye, think how much better it will be when it is cleaned up, and set to work with the newest thing in mops and cleansers to complete...
Until they die, dying must remain for people a wild and impossible conjecture. Most people, with casual cowardice, do not contemplate death as they approach it. The result of the mind's bouncing, like a tennis ball, between the racquets of Life and Death, is usually expressed completely, inarticulately, paradoxically, in the trite phrase: "What does it all matter?" Having reached this point, normal people have breakfast; abnormal people kill themselves...
...Uninvited Guest. Every now and then a mountain play just has to come in to relieve some playwright's mind of the discovery that simple folk suffer strenuously. This is one about a young wife, an ancient crabbed husband, a philandering preacher. The arrival of a baby not the husband's proves troublesome...
...Englishmen . . . are indifferent to art, and especially to sculpture, if their tastes can be judged by the monuments they tolerate. I am going back to America with an open mind . . . it is a friendlier country to artists than England...