Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jewish family has most efficiently exploited these gifts of their race in modern times? The House of Rothschild comes instantly to mind. One Amschel Moses, a peddler so obscure that he did not know his own surname, set up a shop in Jew Street, Frankfort, two centuries ago, with a rothes schild (red shield) over the door. From that advertisement the House of Rothschild takes its name. Today it stands for a family with, some say, two billion dollars in worldly goods, great banking houses in London, Vienna, Paris and the motto: Servare Modum, Finemque Tenere ("Be moderate, and never...
...first scene disclosed King Eadgar's (Lawrence Tibbett's) banquet hall, its rough-hewn table boards, trophies of woodland kills, crude spears, armor: discloses also the royal widower's conceit to take a second wife. Aelfrida, daughter of the Thane of Devon, famed for beauty, is in his mind. With Saxon stolidity, however, he withholds decision until assured that the lady, whom he has never personally inspected, merits her reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother, Aethelwold (Edward Johnson), whose attitude toward ladies is thus described: "Should a wench but breathe...
...avoid anemia, pneumonia, rickets." Pliny Fisk, financier: "After dining in a Columbus Circle restaurant one evening last week, I walked toward my hotel, on the upper west side of Manhattan, alone. A large Negro brushed roughly by me. 'Be careful how you are walking,' said I. 'Mind you' own business,' he retorted. An instant later this Negro, with two companions who sprang from nowhere, seized and dragged me into the hallway of a frowsy house. Telling about it later, I said: 'They almost strangled me, but I kept my wits. I observed their faces...
...life [i. e., a moral code]. Assent to an official creed is not essential. Within the circle of fellowship created by loyalty to the common Master there may exist differences of theological opinion. With that primary loyalty affirmed, such differences need not separate; rather, indeed, if the mind of the Master controls, they may enrich the content of faith and experience...
...pupils won the game, eight matches to seven. Fathers explained to mothers: "I was all out of practice." Mothers consoled fathers: "Never mind. The children will never get out of practice after being trained by that Teacher Gaylord...