Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Reader Campbell is right: the absent-minded Prime Minister's hat is going left.- ED.
"The shorter the skirt the better," was the feeling of shortage-minded Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's Minister of Economic Affairs. But he added quickly that, of course, "there must be some limits."
Antibes' money-minded Mayor Jean Pastour, who despised Picasso's work but recognized its market value, had raised the admission price to the castle from five to 30 francs. Last week's visitors got their 30 francs' worth: they found 65-year-old Picasso himself pacing...
Last week all London was still fighting for tickets to the U.S. musical Oklahoma! But for a simple-minded evening in the theater, the British public preferred an outrageously sentimental, swashbuckling melodrama-with-music called Perchance to Dream. It celebrated its thousandth performance by packing the Hippodrome to the rafters...
Intelligent criticism of Mr. Wallace's statements is customarily a scarce commodity. His opponents damn him wholly, and his admirers praise him indiscriminately. Where a man generates such violent repulsion or attraction, it is difficult to discover a sizable number of appraisers who are able to seek out the undeniable...