Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legislation in question provides for increased salaries for the Governor General and other officials and pay for "advisers" desired by Governor General Stimson in addition to his regular Cabinet. Lawyer Gabaldon's objection was based in the familiar phrase, "Taxation without representation." He thought the Philippine legislature, when it meets, should be allowed to pass on these expenditures of island taxes. In general, the Gabaldon revolt is against the dilatory, if not reactionary trend of U. S. Philippine policy since 1899, when Dr. Jacob G. Schurman, president of the first Philippine Commission, construed the U. S. policy...
...more I thought of it, the less I liked its appearance," Mr. Patten testified. Why should Treasurer Upham dispose of bonds belonging to the G. O. P. so privately when there was a quick public market for them any day? Mr. Patten worried about it in bed that night. Next day he rid himself of these queer bonds by giving them as his subscription to the Evanston Hospital...
Mile. Biget screamed. "Blankets! blankets!" cried the spectators. In an instant, friends who stood ready with blankets had smothered the flames. Emerging, Mlle. Biget seemed more nervous than singed. "I got so hot," she said, "that I thought I'd better scream...
Such a question, such a thought was no doubt remote from the blank and infant mind of Princess Sachiko Hisa-No-Miya of Japan last week. She died without having reached the age at which humans become articulate to others and probably before she became articulate to herself...
...thought as he stood there in his white and gold lace, with his air of fine and simple dignity that there had never been an arrival more momentous-never anyone on whom more conflicting emotions were centered, hopes and doubts and fears, but above all confidence in his personal integrity and wisdom. . . . While I made my curtsy, it was all I could...