Word: selfishnesses
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...whisked him off to Switzerland. Jennifer was a little hurt but forgot it when Father's wife left him and left Father on her hands again. By a cataclysmic effort of will, James shook Alice long enough to rush manfully home to Jennifer, declare himself unvicarishly. Father, a selfish, tactless man on the whole, died at just the right moment...
When the U. S. went to war in 1917, critical citizens declined to take at face value President Wilson's pronouncements of an idealistic national purpose. Right or wrong, they insisted that the country had been driven into the fight for selfish economic reasons. Bankers who had made large military loans to the Allies were charged with seeking to protect their investment. Industrialists whose factories already hummed filling foreign munitions contracts were accused of fostering U. S. participation to increase their own profits. After the Armistice this skepticism of U. S. war motives was increased by the presence...
...discontented; it is another name for ambition. Be selfish; don't work for the professors. Be disobedient; do not believe everything you are told. Be lazy and fond of music, books, impracticable flowers and the birds that sing, though there be no ear to hear...
...toothache but also reduce the burden on the National Exchequer. It is about as convincing as the suggestion, supplied by a peer of the realm in a pamphlet recently put out by the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, that the stag deserves to be hunted because 'he is a selfish old fellow, much addicted to the pleasures of the table and the harem'-which might involve us in hunting some of the landed gentry as well as the old-age pensioners...
This was the Message which he feared that Cardinal Pacelli's promised pre-Christmas message to the U. S. might obscure (TIME, Dec. 29). Some of his points: Nationalism. "It is difficult, if not impossible, for peace to become permanent so long as selfish and hard nationalism prevails in place of true and genuine love of country, so long as we find hatred and jealousy in place of good will, suspicion in place of brotherly confidence, ambitions of hegemony and domination in place of respect for the rights of the weak and small. . . ." War. "We do not believe...