Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ootcher Y. Kootcher, self-styled "Hoist" reporter, looking for a scoop, was directed to the Mount Auburn Street obstruction for possible news. "There's nothing newsworthy there," he said gloomily. "I'll get in touch with the Obituary Department...
TIME was using "vulgar" to indicate a hearty British, not a self-conscious U. S. phenomenon. Fortnight ago from Capri Miss Fields telephoned the London Daily Express regarding TIME'S story. Sensibly, good-humored-ly she commented: "The customers are satisfied, aren't they? Besides, I'm not vulgar. When I'm trying not to be vulgar, everybody tells me off. I don't care what they say about me. People who see me like me. That's all that matters. I just go on in my own sweet way. My act has changed...
...live. The economic distress was correspondingly dreadful and the people's mortality figure rose in the most fearful manner. In Vienna alone last year out of 100,000 births there were 20,000 fatalities.† I don't say this because I believe I could impress the self-righteous citizens of the world, for I know they are completely without feeling toward such affairs...
Lockheed, Curtiss-Wright, Martin, North American Aviation all withdrew from the competition for reasons of their own. Secret plans for "dream planes" were, however, submitted last week by Boeing, Consolidated, Douglas, Sikorsky. With a grand flare of publicity came drawings from the ninth firm, self-invited Seversky, which suggested that the inventive Russian had out-dreamed them...
Crane's imaginative compass, which held his story to a psychological true North, was the conflict between his hero's blind instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal war machine. The core of Wright's stories is the conflict between the Negro's instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal, unpredictable lynch machine. The sadistic, melodramatic physical details of his lynchings occur within an almost off-stage irrelevance. Their reality is the "white fog" of lynch terror which hangs over the Negro community, impenetrable to the brightest Southern sunlight. It is this central psychological core...