Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury, a position that she has occupied since November 15, 1934. . .. It is my hope that Miss Roche's absence from the Treasury will not be permanent, but that she will be able to make such arrangements as will permit her to return. With this in mind I have determined with the President's approval not to recommend at this time anyone to fill the Assistant Secretaryship which she will vacate on November...
...Governor Frank Orren Lowden, near Oregon, Ill., the two Republican chieftains met and announced that they were "in agreement on every essential problem." This meant that they were not prepared to disagree in public. However, last fortnight in Topeka, Alf Landon called a national radio mass-meeting, spoke his mind on the state of the Union for half an hour (TIME, Nov. 1), without so much as a lukewarm mention for Herbert Hoover's biggest political plan. Last week, addressing a meeting of 3,000 Republicans in Boston and a nation-wide radio audience, Herbert Hoover assaulted the ears...
...Hollow, yes, like my mind. Dark, long thoughts envelop my brain fibres; the process of thinking is one constant torment, one anguish that has no end nor beginning. I'm not saying anything, foolish person; I am only feeling, feeling the pits of despondecy...
Gradually his legs grew numb; they were the first to fall asleep. The numbness crept up his body, as ideas--all sick and diseased--ran little circles in his mind. He turned over on his left side; he doubled his legs; he moved his hands under the pillow. He rested. He turned back again on his right side; he crossed his legs; he extended them. His subconscious grasped him, and without recognition he was asleep...
Dreams, nightmares, interminable abysses of utter blankness--these toyed with his defenceless mind. Unconscious, he moved about during the hours of the night. He ran down black alleys, he leapt over cliffs and fell through the air like a feather; he walked into a store with a big glass window and bought an automobile; a girl with a flopping white hat chased him up a flight of stairs (he remembered thinking that he had seen her face before. In Boston?): he saw beer cans dropping from the ceiling. Dawn approached, and his blankets and sheets lay messed...