Word: trustingness
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"Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. The best element of business has long decided that honesty should govern competitive enterprises and the rule of caveat emptor should not be relied upon to reward fraud and deception."
2) Did he hope by a recess appointment to seat a man on the bench whom the Senate might not otherwise readily approve, trusting that the Senate would not care to reject the new Justice next January after he had already served through the fall term?
Result was that Franklin Roosevelt, when he gave in, was not able to dictate a compromise. Instead he had to put the whole matter into the hands of Senator Robinson, trusting him to obtain the best terms available. This was a new relationship, not seen in more than four years...
Not East or West but up in the air moved the focus of Spain's war last week. General Mola's land attack on Bilbao was temporarily halted after a bloody hand-to-hand with rifle butts and knives. Comparatively quiet too were all the other fronts. But...
Well, I poured out any heart to Madame Blouse: not to question her mathematics, but to ask if she'd spare my losses just in case the system proved an exception with me. She wrote to me to come and see her. So I did. Madame Blouse is a great...