Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character "John Steele" in my play, To the End of Time, is John Lewis. I merely wish to say that I have no control over anybody's personal opinion. Nor is that particular feature in his report the one that motivates this letter. What I have in mind is a certain very important inaccuracy-albeit undoubtedly an inadvertent one-in your article: your correspondent said that I obtained my finances from the "antilabor overlords" of Milwaukee. That is not true even in the very slightest degree! And if ever it becomes necessary for me to prove...
Liberal by common consent is charitable, 80-year-old John Dewey, who reiterated that Education and the mind in the frayed but clean white collar would conquer all. Liberal too is irritable Stuart Chase, who writes hotly about the conservation of U. S. resources, seems to think everybody else wants to go out and erode a lot of soil. Liberal, as everybody knows, is William Allen White, 71, Republican, editor of the Emporia Gazette, backer of Alfred Landon, who last week published The Changing West to reaffirm his liberal views. Equally liberal is Bruce Bliven, 50, editor, who steered...
...Cadet out," scoffed Huey, "you're Rooney Maupin about like a killjoy. Put that drink Downing the Hatch, and don't spill it on your Frontezak. You Cantabs your mind made up. Huey says Harvard 7, Army...
...since the beginning of the European war. The weeks had been telling on him, these hectic weeks out of which erupted the AIL, the Student Union peace poll, verbal battles in the Crimson over neutrality, and peace meetings by the score. Conscientiously Vag had tried to make up his mind about it all, to decide just what stand he should take. But a solution to the problem seemed to be always just beyond his fingertips...
Then there was this affair about changing some U. S. ships to Panama registry so they could sail into war zones. Vag had just about made up his mind that this was hedging, and exactly the wrong thing to do to stay out of war. After all, Mr. Hull thought so too. But again, the President quickly made the statement that the matter had no bearing on our neutrality. What to believe...