Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magazine, is an epitome of all that has been said on the subject lately. It asserts that college editors fail to harmonize the tone of their editorial columns with the responsibility that is theirs by virtue of their place as representatives of the college in print. Cynicism, flippancy, and disregard of conventionalities are specific charges...
Christmas is quite another thing. All the brains that have been racked and paper wasted in vain attempts to analyse the spirit of Christmas show how little any of us know about it after the first ten magical years of our life are over. It needs a supreme disregard of physical limitations and an indifference to the more material things of the world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget...
National figures were few in the closing days of the Democratic campaign. John William Davis kept at it over the radio. James Middleton Cox strove along the Border. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, famed baseballer, repeatedly told Midwesterners to disregard the Wall Street odds. "Don't forget Wall Street bet 3 to 1 against the Yankees in the World Series. Wall Street will be wrong again...
...said: "I will assure the distinguished Republican representative that this is no sham battle. This is a real fight ; and it is not a fight upon the merits or the demerits of the Eighteenth Amendment or the sustaining legislation; it is a fight against bribery, corruption, lawlessness, intemperance and disregard and disrespect...
...would probably become not "Secretary of Peace" but "Secretary of the Science of National Defense." This observers deduced from the fact that President Calvin Coolidge said last week, at Wausau, Wis. (See National Affairs): "We cherish no sentiment of aggression. . . . But . . . for the Government [of the U.S.] to disregard the science of national defense would expose it to the contempt of its citizens at home and of the world abroad. It would be an attempt to evade bearing our share of the burdens of civilization...