Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your treatment of the Democratic side of the present political campaign is to my mind grossly unfair. All Democratic leaders are referred to as bosses, and that elevated and altruistic gentleman, William S. Vare, is respectfully designated Senator...
Small tigers (not blind) abound in the dry uplands of the Belgian Congo, Africa. But perhaps Representative Murphy has in mind the largest species of tiger, the felis tigris, which is indigenous to Asia. Subscriber Murphy would be meticulously correct if he should state that the felis tigris is to be found in Africa only behind zoo bars...
Prostitution: "Mr. William Allen White sailed for Europe with a happy and contented mind. I hope, and I would not disturb it by attempting to describe to him the heavy weight that he laid upon my family when he accused me of being a friend of prostitution. . . . My record as an opponent of immorality is fixed and secure. Publicly and by many letters in my possession, the late Rev. Canon John P. Peters, when chairman of the Committee of Fourteen, the leading anti-vice society of New York, repeatedly thanked me for my co-operation with that organization...
Time and again he had the courage to change his mind and defy his party-notably in the cases of Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade. As a staunch Tory (the party which represented landed interests) he had opposed Free Trade, opposition to which was exemplified in the famous Corn Laws. But with the changing needs of a country fast deserting agrarianism for industrialism, Peel reconsidered. Suddenly in the summer of 1846 the crops failed, famine threatened. Peel declared for a Whig measure-repeal of the corn tariff-thus precipitating one of the bitterest battles of British politics. With devastating sarcasm...
...Relation to Society, Little Essays of Love and Virtue, Impressions and Comments. Nineteen-year-old Ellis, distressed by his own patchy understanding of the complicated sex impulse, vowed he would save other youth from similar distress, and devoted his life to elucidation. With this end always in mind, his studies ranged from ten years' medical practice to wide reading of philosophy, history, and fiction, recorded in his six volumes of annotated quotations-Taine, Swinburne, Flaubert, Strauss, Voltaire, Boccaccio, Whitman...