Word: selfishnesses
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...credit. Claiming similarities between the Supreme Court decision and "the briefs and arguments" presented in cases involving newspapers, the committee arrived at the conclusion that the Lovell decision "should silence those people who have been pretending that our long battle to maintain freedom of the press has been a selfish effort to maintain a special privilege...
...subject of prison leadership, one unusually literate convict wrote as follows: "Historical heroes-leaders who have received the loudest acclaim from biographers have been warriors who led their people to conquest or freedom. Their dominant characteristics have been many-selfish Napoleon, ambitious Alexander, patriotic Washington, bigoted Cromwell. Would any of these be recognized as leaders in our modern prisons? I think not. They would be known within the walls as 'handshakers,' 'administration men,' and 'rats...
...They [selfish minorities] have the same type of mind as those representatives of the people who vote against legislation to help social and economic conditions, proclaiming loudly that they are for the objectives but do not like the methods, and then fail utterly to offer a better method of their...
There was plenty of psychological stimulus for the decline. Political reports from France were gravest of the grave. President Roosevelt had twitted the "selfish few" in a speech at Gainesville, Ga. two days before. A better reason for the fall in security prices was that U. S. business in general has been bad for six months and last week got worse...
...glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME, July 9, 1934). Said Bette when she saw the film for the first time: "I didn't believe I could act so-so nastily...