Word: selfishnesses
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...think my suggestion of permitting more than two substitutes to get into the letter game, is selfish. It applies only to men deserving of this reward, and there are always more than two extra men who do deserve this. Has this suggestion a chance, through your columns, of reaching the proper parties? Arthur Bronstein...
...known worth who would have liked to attend that meeting was Dr. W. T. Grenfell, famed "Angel of Labrador," explorer, missioner. He wrote in a letter: "We always stood for keeping Sunday as a day of rest among our deep-sea fishermen, and all this froth talk by selfish and self-indulgent people about Blue Laws and the throwing about of cynicism can never affect the issue. Those people and those collections of people called nations, where Sunday is kept as a day of rest, are the best and happiest every time...
...noises generally realize that friends might be seriously offended if forced to share their taste, particularly if the friends desired at the moment only to sleep. Using such instances as parallels, certain tenants of apartment houses on Park Avenue, Manhattan, last week maligned John Davison Rockefeller Jr., calling him "selfish," "inconsiderate" and worse...
...Selfish to Triumph...
...many, evolution means the survical of the fittest in the struggle for existance; and that is taken to imply that the selfish triumph, the most cruel and bloodthirsty are exalted, those who disregard others...