Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...
...grown up seem a little less oppressive. Perhaps for his readers the visitation of the military may have a different effect, but in any case the occasion is a red-letter day in the Harvard calendar and the Vagabond welcomes to-day's visitors with a sincere, if somewhat selfish, greeting...
...tariff." The Voice went on to say that Flexible Tariff Ridge (see map, TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties 50% upon recommendation of the Tariff Commission, without consulting Congress) whenever necessary...
...Lamont is sincere in his statement, and I have no doubt of the sincerity of anything he says, this merger, that has been so feared and dreaded, may prove the most fortunate development in all the years of the struggle between the State and selfish private interests...
...newsgatherers in the lobby to talk of their "mission." What is said is generally of small importance; it would get scant press attention anywhere else. But because the publicity-seeker stands at the White House and begins, "I outlined to the President my plan for-," his selfish words are broadcast as if with the President's consent...