Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people in that country shall be assimilated first and that their identity as jews shall be lost. The present policy in Russia is a very deliberate one and is intended not merely to destroy every vestige of Jewishness in Russian Jewish life but also to destroy the most self-conscious element of Russian Jewry-the Zionists. . . . These are the days for protest and condemnation...
...ultimately become an American colony. Nothing lies farther from the wish of the American people than to take from the European his responsibility for the conduct of his own industry. The American wishes in his international dealings and business acts to deal with independent persons and peoples who are conscious of their own responsibility. He does not wish to deal with slaves...
...Whatever he did actually, spiritually John D. never grew beyond his boyhood beliefs. To propitiate his own Christian beliefs and the public which still embraced them, more than three-fourths of Rockefeller's gifts of $750,000,000 "have been distributed since 1911, the year the public became mathematically conscious of his vast wealth." More than any other's, his money is responsible for Prohibition. To needy institutions went most of these millions. To needy individuals (20,000) went shiny dimes. Once to an indigent old acquaintance Rockefeller sent a pair of shoes
Ding, dong bell, Market gone to hell! Who put her there? Little Tommy Bear! Who'll geeva pull? Little Johnny Bull! What a naughty little pup To eat the paper profits up. Contributor Funk was obviously a man of substance, conscious of the stockmarket. His subsequent contributions would have revealed him, to any between-lines-reader, as: a fatalist; a hedonist conscious of women, tobacco, liquor; a bad golfer; a married man whose thoughts sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus...
Next fall, Choreographer Laban expects to visit the U. S. Perhaps his idea will result in a National Streetdancing Advertising Co. Or perhaps he will find that the U. S. is not yet sufficiently ballet-conscious for the idea to "take...