Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is crazy change-of-the-pocket procedure . . . The United States housing program is in no respect self-liquidating. . . ." He slammed a book down on the well-table so hard it bounced into the lap of grinning Joseph Shannon of Missouri. "My 18-months-old baby will be lucky to live to see one of these contracts consummated...
...then let fly at the canvas. But with metropolitan art critics, the astute, silk-toppered Artist Sir William Rothenstein, the Duke of Kent and bevies of Mayfair socialites swarming to see his pictures, and with the whole show bought by Scottish Art Dealer Andrew G. Elliot, the bushy-headed, self-styled ex-gangster pal could well afford to smile...
...dignified Thomas Mann shinnied self-consciously down the Ivory Tower and announced that a writer's business is to be political as well as literary. Elder Brother Heinrich Mann might have snickered in his lush Van Dyke beard, for Brother Thomas was only preaching what Brother Heinrich has spent a lifetime practising. For some 40 of his 68 years he has been writing a series of historical novels which constitutes a political and sociological record of the German people from Kaiserdom to "folkdom." If there is no Magic Mountain among his collected works, Brother Heinrich might well claim that...
Author Egerton declares the African colonies are run solely for their white masters. "Are we pretending to educate these people for self-government?" he asks; answers, "They governed themselves before we went there." From the native's point of view he sums up the European achievements as roads he "does not care twopence about," schools which produce "a very disgruntled specimen," missions so frail "that, ten years after the departure of the last missionary, there would be no Christianity left," hospitals whose staffs need "all their time to counteract the tendency of the population to decrease under the white...
...summer of 1937. Her cast of ten carefully disparate characters: a Chinese banker, his Occidentalized son, a refugee Jewish surgeon who had won the Iron Cross, a svelte White Russian married to a drunken English millionaire, a bespectacled little Japanese journalist, a trained nurse from Iowa and her self-pitying fiance from Hawaii, a tuberculous coolie, a young German musician turned opium addict...