Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Significance. Obviously, the foundation on which this body is constructed is irony. The implication over and over again is that?perhaps ?very possibly?relatively speaking, at least, "Crazy Man" is not totally insane. His lunacy is consistently idealistic. And for that reason, Crazy Man, the novel, more than...
Many serious-minded concert-subscribers are now pondering thoughtfully over this amazing possibility.
"She was one of the most beautiful children I have ever seen. . . . Although she was but budding into young girlhood, you could visualize the sort of woman she was going to grow to be -strong, keen-minded, intelligent, a woman of quality, fit to mother a prince or a president...
Thomas A. Edison: "At a luncheon given by the cinema industry in my honor, I danced a jig, jokingly accounted for my capers by saying I had monkey glands. Besieged by literal-minded reporters, I explained that there was no literal truth in my remark."
While refraining from the sentimental approach to this subject, one might nevertheless point out that a great deacon, and probably will be said on that account. However, a perfectly impersonal, business-like view is all that is really necessary to convince a fair-minded and solvent individual of the justice...