Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention first the insinuations of Mr. Dillington-Dowse against the people of the United States. Secondly I should like to express the opinion that his patronizing belittlement of, TIME, coupled with the ridiculous mishandling of tense in his letter, arouses in my mind the very gravest suspicions as to how he obtained the stationery bearing the imprint of the "Author's Club, 2 Whitehall Court, S. W. 1, London, England...
...course, entre nous, you are forced to be servile to public opinion, and cannot call your mind your own-when you are in your office. Your refusal of Haldeman-Julius's advertising must have made you keep away from mirrors for a while. I have been surprised at the class of periodicals he has entered with his advertising, and believe you would be safe in taking...
...some two months his weight had dropped from 145 to 130 pounds. Propped up on his pillows, eyes closed, long wisps of hair straggling across his high forehead, he lay in what one observer called a state of "cell shock," his mind apparently focussed on the prison sentence that lay before...
...need to be cautious about putting up career men, simply because they are career men . . . against the able negotiators in first authority now practically conducting the diplomatic negotiations of European countries. ... I do not have individuals in mind. But . . . any custom of appointments and promotions involving career men must never dull the sharp discretion which the appointing power should employ in selecting our best men for our most important diplomatic work...
...Mann had entered into the didactic and reflective period of his life. "The Enchanted Mountain" has nothing to do anymore with actions and happenings of which Buddenbrooks are as full as an old chronicle. It is purely experience of the soul, action-or not even that,-reflection of the mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd period in a man's life? But that is what the book is written around, a wonderful book, full of contemplative thought, of dialectic discussion, of wisdom. It is the ripest...