Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justly criticized [TIME June 27] by many of your subscribers for not honoring Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, our courageous young air hero, by placing his pleasing countenance on the cover of your weekly newsmagazine, TIME (the best magazine of its kind published). Who has been more in the public mind of late years, or what picture on your cover could meet with more popular approval, not for what he has accomplished, so much, as for what he is, and for what he stands ? Your articles about him have been excellent, not hysterical, and it is a treat to read such...
...President Harding and the advent of President Coolidge the oil scandals slipped out of the headlines and into the courts and, what with the slowness of legal procedure and the public willingness to trade old sensations for new, Teapot Dome and Elk Hills ceased to agitate the popular mind...
...instance a U. S. Representative was offered money to help put a bill through the U. S. Senate, he could not be prosecuted for having "sold" his office because he had no official connection with what the Senate might do.) While this ruling may seem to the lay mind technical, theoretical and involved, it was nevertheless one of the reasons why the Government preferred to try Messrs. Fall and Doheny first on the conspiracy charge and let the bribery indictments hold over...
...Representatives . . . put flood legislation as second in importance, tax reduction in his opinion, being first. If Mr. Tilson, who was born in this valley, would come down here and look at this desolation, these wrecked homes, and talk with these ruined farmers, I think he would change his mind. He made this statement at Rapid City. I hope he did not speak for the President...
Authors Upton Beall Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis are sometimes confused in the casual mind and not only because of their names. As penmen they are stylistic cousins of whom the younger and cleverer-Mr. Lewis-has far surpassed in ability and notoriety his more intellectual and radical elder. Yet when Sinclair Lewis was but a redheaded young yahoo learning at Upton Sinclair's colony, Helicon Hall (Englewood, N. J.), the rudiments of a Socialism which he was later to abandon for a creed 100% egocentric, Upton Sinclair was already a celebrity by inversion, a rebel whose voice of loud...