Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peoria, Ill., the people who favor prohibition know William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson. Some have seen their hero in times past. Many have seen his pictures, know well his single eye. So when it was advertised that William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson would speak in person, not by radio?hundreds tumbled out into the inclement, spring, into a bandbox auditorium. Listening to the one-eyed one, their hearts warmed, their ideals revived, their purses opened...
THOBBING?Henshaw Ward?Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). "When a person THinks without curiosity, has an Opinion because he likes it, Believes what is handy?then he THOBS." Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin, able Princeton biologist, has called it, more simply, "wishful thinking." The inventor of the new word, excusably pleased with himself, hammers for nearly 400 pages to drive it into the language. Before he has done he admits that he is probably thobbing himself...
...When one person tries to go as near as he can to the line of popular morality for the sake of publicity, and his adversary tries to go as near as he can to the line of publicity for the sake of popular morality, a question of ethics both interesting and perplexing confronts, the few thinking beings who care to enjoy their prerogative. In the present instance the judge who decided in favor of the lesser evil was undoubtedly acting both sanely and with a judicial preciseness. Better a Tartuffe dead and a harlequin living, than more moss covered morals...
...person has been so outstanding a proponent of the novel and the apparently unusual in American education as has the present incumbent of the Brittingham Chair of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Alexander Meiklejohn. His desire for the creation of a "new college" has long been known, if not completely understood. So with the publishing in the current "New Republic" of the formulated idea of the "new college" one can determine more precisely just whether or not he believes Dr. Meiklejohn's plan either sound or necessary...
Unfortunately for this fictional crusade, it does not escape the standardizing influence of the type of mystery story. In the person of Moria Devens, daughter of the murdered contractor, the inevitable love theme enters to bring the story down to the normal level. By means of this amorous tie, Mr. Train holds his narrative within the bounds which has been plotted out by a host of novelists before...