Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually, of course, the Earl of Birkenhead is sensitive to the slightest "Orient trouble" affecting India. He keeps his counsel, and sometimes he keeps it over a glass and a cigar; but when trouble is scented the quick legal mind that made him Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1919-22) kindles, and he speaks as he did last week, before the House of Lords...
...large room on the second floor of a small grey house forms the sleeping and working quarters of a Dictator only 31 years old, whom elder statesmen held uneasily and attentively in mind last week. One enters, climbs a neat, unvarnished stair, and is stopped by two rugged guards in black-braided baggy white trousers, red fezzes, pirate sashes. Their pay is $12 a month. Firearms are by Mauser and Anfaldo. These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania...
...come; the doors will never be closed), will be trained and given an outlet. ... I do not aim at impressiveness in the buildings or equipment. All must be secondary to the quality of instruction dispensed. ... It will not be done in a hurry. Such ideals as I have in mind are necessarily matters of slow growth...
Mariners. In this drama by Clemence Dane, scattered episodes play around the central theme-a woman (Pauline Lord) whose love becomes insensate fury. Once a barmaid, this Lilly marries Benjie Cobb (Arthur Wontner), brilliant student. His devotion to his work as minister of a small parish preys upon her mind. Why should he stick in a mudhole? Why permit his ludicrous preaching to interfere with his attention to her? She hates his cloth, his parish, his sacrifice. The parish, in turn scorns her. For 20 years her husband has struggled to reconcile her to his life. With all the sincerity...
Once Truth is left behind, the section on Beauty rises somewhat in tone and approaches the level on which one expects to find observations on the other fellow's habits of mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly...