Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vandalism and that, in the philodendronic sense, is the bark or outer periphery of an Ibis tree. The poor old Ibis has done enough to hurt her breed in the last few days without becoming dispossessed of her perch upon the Ibis bough. Unlike Horace who was quite selfish when his famous tree fell, the CRIMSON worries more about the tree than the fact that its fall hurt no one but the reputation of him, who in the dark of night, saw fit to saw the Ibis tree. Such gestures should remain the prerogative of the insane--perhaps they have...
...scrapes; slaved for one and all in kitchen, study, school, hospital. The saccharine type of "the nation's pure and enlightened womanhood," for which she was the unwilling inspiration, would have been aghast, as another generation is reassured, by the tart honesty of her journal: "I'm selfish. I want to go away and rest in Europe. Never shall...
...young man, irresponsible, selfish, becomes entangled with two women. One he marries; the other he leaves to bear a nameless child. Instead of allowing the play to rush to its inevitable catastrophe from this point, Miss Vernon, under the guidance of George M. Cohan, makes it diddle with detectives, telephone calls, attempted murder, cross-examinations, till finally she puts an end to it all with a last tragic scene that recalls the promise of the first two. Shirley Warde carries off highest honors in the cast, though Chester Morris makes a sufficiently convincing cause of all the trouble. The lighting...
...Commerce report; locating in Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, etc., at least a million and a half acres as good as, or better than, the acres in Sumatra and Malaya where Dutchmen and Britishers raise raw rubber for the world's markets. He said, in effect, that whereas the "selfish, shortsighted" Filipinos have repeatedly refused to permit U. S. interests to build up a much-needed raw rubber supply, by refusing to permit public lands to be acquired in tracts greater than 2,500 acres, the Moros grateful for self-government, would surely be more farsighted and generous. They would...
...Direct primaries and direct elections bring to bear upon the political fortunes of public officials the greatly disproportionate influence of organized minorities. Artificial propaganda, paid agitators, selfish interests, all impinge upon members of legislative bodies to force them to represent special elements rather than the great body of their constituency...