Word: whims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of free speech and free press very obviously enters this case in spite of the Dean's contention. His latest reported statement that merely my personal misconduct was involved is ludicrous, inasmuch as it immediately brands "Spectator" as my personal property, subject to my every whim and unaffected by others. Dean Hawkes expelled me because I was editor of "Spectator" and because "Spectator" criticized strongly where it saw fit. The Dean's twisting of the issue for every occasion only marks the last resort of a person forced to attempt to justify an unjustifiable action." --Columbia Spectator...
...sunk and another damaged by aircraft attack and shell fire. The big submarines had proved efficient at scouting, but four out of five were lost in action. Planes had operated from carriers as far as 1,000 miles at sea, a record, yet their usefulness had been at the whim of weather...
While the competitive system seems to set mere men at the whim of imponderable elements beyond their ken or control and give free rein to huge competing combines that must, by their very nature, reach the point of saturation, obsolescence, and final destruction, a survey of present day democracy gives pause to those who wish to believe that in public ownership or control there lies a solution for periodic industrial collapse. Legislatures composed of individuals apparently forced to spend as much as possible for the delight of local constituents make the trusteeship of common welfare a grisly political farce...
...touchdown. Then Rentner got his huge hands on a Minnesota punt and made Northwestern's last long touchdown run, making the score 32 to 14, making spectators feel sure that in its remaining games against Iowa and Indiana, Northwestern could score almost at will or at the whim of its capricious, brilliant backs. A half-million people watched the dozen biggest games of the week. Largest crowd of the year-100,000-saw Southern California's Mohler, Shaver, Pinckert and Musick, the best backfield on the Pacific Coast, smother Stanford at Los Angeles, 19 to o. With...
...fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera, in California, Egypt and Algeria, bemoaning the seven lean years since hats were last plumed, hoped the feathers in Paris would prove more than a whim...