Word: selfishnesses
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...horridly ill-mannered, thoroughly selfish, slothfully inclined person . . . smugly superior and insufferably condescending. . . . By your own account you come near . . . being a rotter...
...Navy wife wrote: "My husband . . . wants a child. I do not. ... I don't want to drag around alone during those miserable nine months. . . . Am I just a selfish female?" Mary called the writer "harebrained," said: "My immediate reaction . . . is a blend of nausea and dismay...
Somewhere between the apparently lofty principles of the Lowells and the palpably selfish sentiments of the Mokarskys come the reasons and excuses of thousands of draft dodgers. Most of them, according to the FBI, are guilty mainly of carelessness and ignorance. Even with far more men drafted, this war's total number of draft delinquents is lower than last war's. Delinquencies reported by local boards to the FBI total 306,144 to date. From June 5, 1917 to Sept. 11, 1918, 474,861 cases were reported...
...rebel," Tutt says. "I rebelled . . . against my father's Calvinistic theology and the severity of his paternal discipline, against the artificial social distinctions of my college days, later against the influence of politics upon the courts, and always against privilege, despotism, and the perversion of the law to selfish ends...
Said Monro: "It is doubly dangerous and unfortunate that a blind, unreasonable and selfish desire not only to perpetuate but to create an even more gigantic monopoly, is placed ahead of the national welfare. ... It is particularly dangerous when it is based on the filmy, seductive allure of 'one company with all airlines participating...