Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right Road for Britain took a stand against nationalization of industry. (The Laborites have also indicated that their nationalizing drive is almost spent.) On social services, however, the Tories go as far as Labor-if not a bit farther. Said the Tory pamphlet: "We regard [the social services] as mainly our own handiwork. We shall endeavor faithfully to maintain the range and scope of these services, and the rates of benefits." The Tories promised increased government spending on farm subsidies, rural housing, roads and forests, pensions to widows, spinsters and the aged, and free drugs to "private patients" who choose...
Last week Small, who has come to regard himself as the Sheik's official cinema Boswell, hastily announced that he had his script in hand and was ready to begin shooting next month. With 20th Century-Fox willing to talk the matter over, Small was threatening Grippo with a court injunction and loudly protesting that he had thought of the movie first. Grippo, who also claimed to have a script on the way, said: "I'm of Italian extraction, same as he [Valentino] was, and I've been a fan of his for years...
...drab as any. Inside, its floors gleam with wax polish; its walls are freshly washed. Built for 500 pupils, it expects to house 650 this fall; last year it had to turn down 300 applicants from other parts of the city. The man responsible for Beauregard's high regard is 33-year-old Principal Joseph Salvador Schwertz...
...control, it added: "In our view free enterprise in the production of newspapers is a prerequisite of a free press, and free enterprise will generally mean commercially profitable enterprise . . . We see no reason to think that newspapers attached to ... political parties, trade unions or other organizations would . . . have greater regard for truth and fairness...
Mencken has been a prodigious workman with a fine regard for the craft of writing. Even the "professors" he loved to pummel had to cheer his massive, scholarly and readable American Language as the best thing of its kind. At another extreme, his autobiographical books (Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days) are among the most engaging of any in U.S. writing. During the past decade his writings and utterances have tended toward peevish and irresponsible flailings of men and politics. But he has seldom hit below the belt and has never used the stab in the back. Whatever his justifications...