Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cream in TIME sometimes surfeits by its very fatness, richness. Too much custard! It must sicken the average mind. Reading TIME is like seeing Hamlet or Macbeth with all the relief scenes left out. Nothing in TIME stands out in relief, because it all stands out, it is all raised to a high pitch, elevation-as if the whole round earth were a continuous, altitudinous tableland. TIME is so intense; no shading, no contrast-all scarlet red unrelieved by any restful, soft yellow or buff tints. It is like a rich full dinner with no salad or soup. To read...
...also think it would be desirable to discuss the possibility of limiting the number of submarines according to our varying requirements, and it must be borne in mind that any limit placed on the number of submarines would make it easier to limit the number of destroyers, and if agreement were reached on these points with other powers it might be possible also to consider the number of cruisers each of us should possess...
...There seems now to be a group in the church itself which holds that the church may 'consider with open mind' sanctioning fornication among our young people with the use of birth control to guard against the coming of children. This is, in plain words, what the high-sounding phrase 'companionate marriage' means, and yet this proposal was mentioned as one to which consideration should be given at the recent church conference in San Francisco [Protestant Episcopal Church Congress] and its consideration is being commended by not a few professors in our universities...
...Bellanca who designed the Columbia that stayed in the air over the U. S. for 51 hours and later flew 3,905 miles, who carries in his pocket the plans for a plane to travel 300 miles per hour, who carries in his mind the plans for gigantic transatlantic airliners, who is regarded by European experts as the leader in modern design...
Ritzy (Betty Bronson). Elinor Glyn, with whom the public mind associates The Philosophy of Love and the theory of IT,† here takes hold of an unusually refreshing bit of froth, only to flatten it with her usual pomposity. The heroine, a little Miss Main Street, is infatuated with the-idea of marrying a duke. Only after she has been taught the error of her snobbish ways and given an opportunity to register truly philosophic passion under half-closed eyelids, does she discover that her fiancé, Mr. Smith, is in reality the Duke of Westborough. Thereupon, morality...