Word: headstrong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather subtle but deep distrust of his temperament and his philosophy. They seem to feel that Mr. Hoover thinks too highly of his own judgment in business affairs and that his judgment is not so good as it is supposed to be. They think there is something incalculable, headstrong, moody, in Mr. Hoover's temperament which would make the White House, if he were President, a centre of restless activity, of manifold arrangings and fixings. They think Mr. Hoover is too sure he would be a good President; that he would think himself too competent to solve all difficulties...
...question that looms far more formidable upon the un-intellectual of Yale is why their schoolmates ever wanted to go to Harvard. I think this is easily answerable: they didn't. They, like the average members of any graduating class at school, wanted to go to college. Some headstrong individual thought of Harvard. The rest thought of nothing. According they went to Harvard. This hold true for nearly every college in the country, far outweighing parental influence. Personally I cannot see how so many happened to think of Harvard, but that is because I happened to think o'Yale...
Major Atkinson's wand worked one through for Britain; and again Hitchcock swept in to score. As the fourth period opened, this same Hitchcock drew back his wand with headstrong determination and struck the willow ball. It rose like a golf ball for a midiron over the heads of the players, bounced, bounded through the posts over 100 yards away. Webb scored, Hitchcock scored, Milburn (against whose play at back the British at tack had foamed and fallen like a wave) scored twice; Hitchcock scored, Webb scored twice; Roark scored a second goal for Britain. Webb scored; Pert scored...
...Abraham's Bosom concerns a Negro who tried to raise up the Carolina blacks through education. Blundering, fanatically inspired, he plods to frustration, overcome by white prejudice, black inertia, his own blunted intellect and headstrong passion. The play is constructed on the episodic model (seven scenes, no act division) covers a 25-year period, many places. The title role is played by Julius Bledsoe, giant Negro whose remarkably resonant voice won instant recognition in the Stallings-Harling opera Deep River. In diction, technique, the cast is not up to high professional standard, yet the presentation is so sincere, the playwright...