Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actual age of Irene Marjory Savidge is 22. The three "naïve" sentences in her testimony which appeared to carry greatest conviction were: "I thought that at Scotland Yard they could summon the King if they wanted to. It's a big place with big people there. ... I thought I had to do everything they told me. . . . When I got home and was told that I needn't have gone to Scotland Yard to be questioned-well, that was when I fainted...
...this tribunal to weigh against her the evidence of these officers and take her alone against the lot of them. The suggestion I make is that the officers [who examined Miss Savidge] thought they were not failing in their duty, if they helped to ensure that there should be no prosecution for perjury [of the constables who falsely arrested...
...York Committee of Fourteen, thought tolerant Japanese last week, probably had in mind not the Geisha, but the Joro. A Japanese male of lowest estate, called an Uma or "horse" imparts in a few moments to the despised Joro such little learning as she, coarse and unfit for Geishahood, is thought to require...
...industry was necessary, and the bee is the symbol of industry. For a newspaper, omnipresence was obviously desirable, and Telegrapher Rosewater saw bees everywhere, hiving, buzzing, hurrying, stinging. Actually, it was a printing house employe who suggested the name. But Telegrapher Rosewater always thought it a happy choice. Similar reasons, later, influenced publishers in Bellefourche, South Dakota; Owanka, South Dakota; Braymer, Mo.; Barnard...
...German magnates thought they knew another and better story. First in their thoughts, foremost in their speculations, was James Augustine Farrell, president of the U. S. Steel Corp., for 35 years an expert in marketing U. S. steel abroad. In 1893, Germans recalled, it was the 30-year-old Farrell, then general manager of the Pittsburgh Wire Co., who brought his company through the panic by selling half the plant's output in foreign markets. By 1901, when the U. S. Steel Corp. was organized, Mr. Farrell was recognized as the outstanding candidate for the post of foreign sales...