Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think "Mrs. Driscoll's Day" [TIME, Jan. 27] the most interesting letter I have read in your Letters department in some time. I think she should have a divorce. J. R. HUTCHESON Judge Superior Courts, Tallapoosa Circuit Douglasville, Ga. Sirs: My hat's off to Mrs. Driscoll! "Her Day" is sure interesting reading but where would she get a publisher to tell it to the world? . . . What's in a name? Just a matter of a few thousand dollars-depending on what the name happens to be. ... (MRS.) AUGUSTA F. MOSTIN...
...reserves for which he had been frantically wiring ever since the Ethiopian War started were finally sent him month ago. His immediate superior was no longer the goat-bearded Fascist Politician Marshal de Bono, but a personal friend and fellow regular, stocky Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Best of all, he had just won the first definite complete victory of the entire Ethiopian campaign, and with regular army troops...
After being dismissed from active duty by Lieutenant General Tetsuzan Nagata, one Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Aizawa, smouldering son of a Samurai and an expert fencing master, walked quietly into his superior's office, drew his Samurai blade, whanged Nagata over the head. As the General tried to escape, his junior ran him through from behind, laid the corpse on a table, slashed up its face...
...writer with an expository commentary, and a critical estimate which in all but a few cases is disappointingly elementary and orthodox. The extracts are well-chosen, the exposition is competent, but, save for the occasional unorthodox conclusions, the volume retains too much of the flavor of the superior textbook and anthology which the author's original design enforced...
When Santayana's second philosophical work was published in 1900, William James wrote of it: ''What a perfection of rottenness in a philosophy: I don't think I ever knew the anti-realistic view to be propounded with so impudently superior an air. . . . Although I absolutely reject the Platonism of it, I have literally squealed with delight at the imperturbable perfection with which the position is laid down, page after page." When The Life of Reason appeared in 1905, James had changed his opinion: ''Santayana's book is a great...