Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again our failure to see clearly is due partly to passion that blinds us often selfish, ignoble passion, impatience with those who oppose us, jealously, vindictiveness, fear, or avarice of wealth and fame. Sometimes the passion springs from better motives, a desire to help others unjustly treated, or eagerness for the success of a cause in whose righteousness we have faith I knew a man who made a rule when indignant to write a letter as strongly as he felt, then address if to himself and drop it into the mail. On receiving if the next morning...
...peoples to follow "the Christian doctrine of the Golden Rule," which is "when you come down to it, the only true 'real politik' in the philosophy of life and that it is an unquestionable truth that he who seeks to save his life by purely selfish means must end by losing...
Fifth Avenue Models. Mary Philbin is one of the minority of actresses who do not play as often as their ability entitles them to. Possibly she has a husband and family who cut into her career; possibly directors do not think she is good. The former are selfish and the latter are dense. In this picture, there is not much narrative. Poor old papa went to jail and for a while it seemed that daughter would wake up some morning and find that working girls do get into trouble. Papa was, of course, innocent; employer was honorable; daughter reaped...
Fighting for the rights of our citizens, opposing by every means in our power the selfish interests which would exploit them, the present administration of the City of New York has fought continually against higher carfares, higher telephone, electric light and gas rates, and against every attempt of corporations or individuals to gouge the people. Enforcing economy, oposing waste and extravagance, this administration has not denied to the people of New York the necessities required for their welfare and for the growth of the city...
...profit and privilege for certain traction and utility groups as well as the newspapers owned, controlled, subsidized or amenable to them. Consequently, every statement of the mayor, no matter how buttressed with facts, has been distorted or garbled or ridiculed. But greater than the power of the newspapers and selfish corporate groups is the power of public opinion formed by a day-to-day observation of actual conditions and always dependable at the polls. This may be a consolation for the man who would enter public life but who dreads being misunderstood or misinterpreted...