Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introduction, he immediately recalled me, "because, he said, I had brought to his attention a publication which had consistently retained his interest and admiration. Senator Goff is cultured, crusty, wealthy. I thought it was a high compliment for TIME that he liked it, and I have had it in mind to tell you of the incidents...
...blood from Picardy was wrestling then in his soul, between the relentless, earthy doctrines of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, and a certain stirring of religious mysticism within him which he had tried in vain to sully, down, and conquer by debauch. Perhaps in the young man's troubled mind Death and God seemed strangely opposed, for he had just come from the sick bed of a favorite grandfather, then dying of cancer of the stomach...
Daily he spent hours with a Japanese sculptor, and later with a Japanese musician. To the one Paul Claudel tried to describe the strange forms and shapes that stir in his mind. To the other he talked of tones and tunes never perhaps to be heard. The sculptor and the musician did the best they could; and, it is said, eased somewhat Paul Claudel's thirst to create, even in mediums where his keen mind tells him that he has neither talent nor skill...
...household by darting forward to extinguish the bomb. Similarly Little Tsar Boris, when fired upon by assassins (TIME, April 27, 1925), whipped out a heavy automatic pistol and fired back. . . . As Chief Ikonomoff searched rapidly in the dark hallway of his home, vivid questions may have flashed before his mind. Who was the bomber? Perhaps an accomplice seeking to avenge the three political "outs" who were executed (TIME, June 8, 1925), after they blew up the Sveti Krai Cathedral, in Sofia, just before a state funeral. Or perhaps the bomb thrower was "just a man with a grudge." There...
Professor Kittredge's series of lectures on "The Appreciation of Shakespeare" brings to the Vagabond's mind the story of Thomas Dowse, the founder of the lectures...