Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friend of mine sent me a copy of TIME, April 18, and I found it very interesting. Going through it, I noticed some amusing references about myself, which, by the way, I appreciate-candor has always been a characteristic of mind, as it is of your admirable little journal. But unfortunately, you made one mistake. (You probably will say, that is not many.) The mistake is, that my chief employed is Sir Thomas Lipton. I have a great admiration for Sir Thomas Lipton, He is a very good friend of mine, but he is not my employer and I have...
...women being less efficient after marriage, I can assure you that a woman can have at least two* children and still remain more efficient than most Right Honorable members. It takes a curious type of mind to say that woman's place is in the home. Men don't say that unless women are in the higher positions. When a woman is a charwoman or a cook nobody says her place is in the home...
...Admiralty: "[Lord Oxford and] Asquith is like a drunken man walking along a straight line-the farther he goes the sooner he falls." T. P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons": "[Of the Empress Frederick of Germany I may say that] her breadth of mind was masculine in its depth...
...ideas of another country are often quite amasing. You very seldom see the American's idea of a typical Englishman with his monocle, or, for that matter, the Englishman's idea of a typical American with his chewing gum. Both have their short comings, but one doesn't mind them if one possesses a sense of humor, does...
...prince to know what is expected of him now that, fashions in royal etiquette have become in places altered and in places done away with altogether. A few slips may not today be sufficient cause for a declaration of war, but they leave a bad impression in the public, mind which, though it has in many cases ceased to regard kings practically, still attaches a measure of sanctity to their persons. It is to be feared that the Prince's informality of costume, unprincely disinterest in Spanish ladies, and undiplomatic refusal to attend a bull-fight may cause Anglo-Spanish...