Word: selfishnesses
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...spirit of discipline" in America, let him learn the following: America, Mr. Hanfstaengl, can be both highly flattered and highly insulted without showing her teeth. She loves to be called "energetic" and "idealistic," even though she has twelve million unemployed, and her leaders are caught in all sorts of selfish, materialistic ventures. She has what you call a "spirit of fair play" to an extent which ordinarily, despite certain of your glaring defects that are superficially repugnant to her, would induce her to welcome you at Harvard with the same hall-fellow-well-met lavishness that the officers...
...more successful manager than artist. Her first job as manager was to get commissions to decorate Hollywood homes. He painted murals of horses and gazelles for William Haines, a mural for Leila Hyams, decorated pianos for Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Lilyan Tashman. He illustrated Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant and an Anthology of Immoral Poems for the Walpole Press. One Sunday, he decided to sculpt. Lacking materials, he fashioned a statue from coat hangers, the hinges of an ironing board, some mud. His ambition is to give California an open-air windowless architecture...
...family that gradually emerged from Author Scott's scrutiny of these nameless photographs, none at first sight was either attractive or unusual. The father, upper middleclass, Boer War vintage, was spoiled, conservative, selfish, in trade (kippers) but with the pretensions of a gentleman. His wife's buxomness had hardened into armor plate. Tilly, who died young, became the family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with...
Skunks are pretty beasts, harmless unless unduly angered by crass attempts upon their lives; and, indeed, if let alone would doubtless lead a selfish existence with little thought of harm. But not to be allowed the freedom of our green is indeed a trial not easily to be withstood. If we let cows come to our lawn, why not let the gentle pussy of the wood; why must we moderns always be so eager to destroy each sign of placid sanity in our hurried life? And why, oh, why, have we no thanks for the Gentle beast who thus...
...second feature. "Dawn to Dawn," was known earlier in its life as "The Black Dawn." Filmed against the solomn background of a desolate middle- western farm it is a profoundly stirring drama. The farmer, an invalid in mind and body, has developed a powerful and selfish love for his daughter and his every effort is directed toward keeping her for himself. The girl, excellently portrayed by Julie Hayden, has grown up in the barren solitude of the plains, and until the strange young man appears, she seems mechanical and devoid of emotion. Her casual meeting with the traveler arouses...