Word: selfishnesses
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...Postoffice investigation is further evidence of the so-called liberals' lust for notoriety. The University is indirectly accused of destroying first class mail, and preventing the delivery of the pamphlets. Even if such were the case, there would be small reward to be gained by these men except a selfish feeling of importance at proving a point...
...could see no waning in his affection for her, even though he turned to drink intermittently, but somehow his wife did. To cap it all, Baxter is persuaded by her confidant-lawyer, to whom she eventually appealed for divorce proceedings, that he has bitterly oppressed his wife by his selfish conduct. Then Baxter, the only logical character in the whole cast, makes the only illogical move of his performance when he humbly bows to his vacillating wife, and all live happily ever after. Tragic, we should say, tragic especially when the writer of the script himself deserts the poor here...
...life, living simply, getting up early, working hard. One such was John Quincy Adams who felt that he could not have endured existence had it not been for Homer. Venerated by the country at large, hated by his own party, he fought the aristocrats of Boston when their selfish claims ran counter to the national welfare, was one of the greatest of living statesmen who was content to be known as one of the most modest poets the country had produced. An actor's letter asking his advice on Othello gave him more pleasure than all his political honors...
...Council in 1934-35. Nevertheless he has delved so deeply into Oriental mysticism that he has been elevated to the rank of Master-the-Fifth of the Great White Lodge of the Himalayas, which he considers to be a survival of a great university in Atlantis, "sunk by the selfish powers of mankind about the year 254,666 B.C." He believes that man has not only an astral body which leaves the corporal shell in sleep or death but an etheric body even more refined than the astral. He has composed a kind of "music" which consists of combinations...
...worldling" TIME meant that Scientist Hawkesworth, like all astronomers, was earth-bound in his observations of the universe, not that he was personally selfish or materialistic...