Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state and I am supposed to be a prohibitionist but I am about as loyal to the Prohibition element as some of these Southern Democrats are to the Democratic party. . . . While I find it is not policy to be too outspoken as to my sentiments, I don't mind telling you and the world that I believe a license for light wines and beers would be a great improvement over the present Prohibition laws. ... I find a good many of the members of Congress feel just about as I do but lack the moral courage to stand...
...stubborn, roundheaded little man, going about "his business in a country and a period where certain conditions existed, they could not have failed to suggest, by his reactions to those conditions, what sort of a fellow he was, and what sort of struggles went on in his mind. This might have been a great picture...
...best detective fiction knows, the "C. I. D." (Criminal Investigation Department) will unravel the knottiest mystery in the shortest possible time. In fiction there is usually an amateur on hand to simplify the C. I. D.'s work. In actuality, for many a long year, the master mind of Scotland Yard, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, a sleuth in no need of amateur assistance, has been Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, a real super-detective credited with solving more murders than any living...
...lava cloud could be seen from Munich but not from Berlin, which is the usual scene of up-to-the-minute German novelties. "Never mind," wrote a Berlin wag. "We have a nice big cloud of our own this week ? all the way from Egypt...
...Pseudo-science ? the brain-weight theory of white superiority to the Negro. Scientists have exploded the theory that the heaviest brain is necessarily the most highly developed. But the idea persists in the popular mind...