Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman to send an atheist Christian propaganda. After so doing, Atheist Smith was found guilty of sending letters with intent to annoy. The judges sentenced him to $100 fine or 30 days in the workhouse. Atheist Smith paid the fine, but appealed their verdict...
...bottom of the box, cold and still alive, was scatterbrained John Thoening. He said he had not eaten for several days, that he was very sleepy, that he had not bitten the hand which had been inserted into his box, but had shaken it rather, with friendly intent...
...William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks stated that he had requested the abdicated onetime Crown Prince Carol of Rumania to leave England within five days, on account of the attempt which Carol allegedly made last fortnight (TIME, May 14) to charter two British air liners for a dash to Rumania, with intent to seize the Throne from his six-year-old son, King Mihai...
...dogmatic solution of the problem is far from the author's intent. "Oliver Cromwell," he says in closing, "had set out with the high profession that he would save the parliamentary liberties of Englishmen. That was his theory. In practice he never once allowed England to elect a free Parliament, and his only permanent legacy to the nation was a standing army. A fact like that cannot be fitly explained by the mere historian. It is a subject for a writer of great tragedy--or farcical comedy...
...flowed along with an untroubled course, and in general without the opposition and many of the defects that characterized its initial employment. Evidently all the participants have extracted something helpful from the January experiment, for this spring assignments are better proportioned, students less perplexed as to the exact intent of the Period, and the Union and Widener more completely furnished with the stuff by which examinations are passed...