Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the labor-conscious President heard a rude noise from his own home town. An A.F.L. painters' union complained that the summer White House in Independence, Mo. was being painted by a non-union painter...
...flannels that needed pressing--all worldly items left his mind as he felt himself received into an aesthetic oneness with Lamont, its books, and fresh, circulating air. The book slid from his grasp, down his leg to stop inside his pants cuff, the last mundane thought slipped from his conscious. Vag was having an aesthetic experience...
...seemed to him that he had never been filled with such peculiar feelings. Conscious that his roommate would want to know where he had been, he did his best to account for the experience. But the moment was too full--thought was impossible and Vag found the new sensation delightful indeed. He was aware that any attempted thought would break the spell immediately. This was the moment for which he was meant. Dropping deeper into the aesthetic whole, he toyed with one shoelace in an effort to prolong the experience, but all of a sudden, the experience was over...
...broke records for five weeks but he outraged the late Chicago Daily News Critic Lloyd Lewis, who found him a "blab-mouthed, satyr-eyed kid" who "toys with physiology, pathology and pruriency, tossing them about with all the freedom of a delinquent boy." On television, acutely conscious of his juvenile following and of the strait-laced National Broadcasting Co., Berle keeps it clean...
...breed (e.g., Colonel Blimp), Guinea Pig has an earnest and sometimes moving integrity. Unfortunately, it also has more than its share of sentimentality and smugness, and not enough humor to keep it from sliding into a kind of fatuous self-congratulation. To many U.S. moviegoers, its class-conscious propaganda in favor of British traditions will sound, perhaps wrongly, like so much Martian gobbledygook...