Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is the most radical, most conservative, most damnable, most altruistic, most agnostic, most religious, most international, most national, most communistic, most democratic, most social, most socialistic, most hated, most lovable, most suppressive and most newsy magazine published; thereby it is self defense that I hand you herewith two years extension to my subscription...
...chance to be in the U. S. at present. They are: 1) Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Evening News), brother of the late and greatest British news titan, Viscount Northcliffe; and 2) William Mawell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (Daily Express and Evening Standard), a self-made Canadian, still sometimes referred to as "that bounder", but generally accorded the respect due a man who has made a cool £1,000,000 in business and then "retired" to enjoy the sport of maneuvering himself into the peerage...
Observers saw in this candid, concise, lucid statement one more proof that Count Volpi epitomizes the best type of self-made Italian business man. Sprung from an old but untitled Venetian family, he was obliged when a boy to earn his living by manual labor. Came an opening in the Levantine shipping trade, and he plunged into a career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace...
...such self-discrediting and sorry stuff is worth $16,000, perhaps it is also good business to obtain it by bribery, "planting" of agents in the bureaus of a foreign state, and inciting these agents to commit burglary. Last week Hearstling subordinates testified that such were substantially the methods used to obtain the purported "original documents...
...Mephistopheles' evil genius, a romantic with a voice fittingly curving and lush. Mephistopheles through it all was the Mr. Hyde to Faust's Dr. Jekyll. He was the embodiment of all the negative forces of life, cut by the same pattern as Faust, only his evil self...