Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Office and on Britain's delegation at Geneva repeated daily last week that His Majesty's Government were not acting "against" Italy but "for" the League covenant. They firmly deprecated all suggestions that Britain was bent on curbing Italy to protect her own imperial interests in Africa. "No selfish or imperialist motives enter into our minds," they all said, recalling the similar declaration at Geneva of new British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare (TIME. Sept...
...enterprise and Daddy Warbucks. Daddy behaves with restraint and fortitude, saying only, "Slugg's a crook but he's not important. What is important is that so many people can be fooled by a Claptrap who'd casually ruin a whole people in venting his selfish spite. . . ." Of Claptrap's demagogic promises, Daddy Warbucks says, "I never heard of a politician who got hold of anything offering to share with anyone else. . . . It's a game that's been played for thousands of years-on one side, the political racketeers, the Claptraps...
...want to seem selfish if Mr. McIntyre needs to divot the Green now and then for his newspaper syndicate; I've run a daily column myself and I know it's a tough job. But when he gets into the bookshops then I feel a certain sense of trade honor involved. ... I work hard over my stuff, and if people are going to read it I'd prefer them to get it in the Saturday Review . . . under my own name than in the Hearst papers under...
...Mussolini has said-and I believe it-that Democracy is essentially immoral," cried the Lord Bishop. "Democracy is immoral because appeal is made to the personal motive, to man's self-interest. Democracy tends to demoralize people, to make them selfish, to think of their own interests and not of the community...
...selfish pleasures of the self-effacing wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr. is to shop for bargains among the works of oncoming modern painters. As vice president and trustee of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, she has put good advice to good purpose by specializing in water colors and drawings by U.S. artists. Three months ago she gave a group of her bargains to Dartmouth College. Last week she gave most of the rest to the Museum of Modern Art. There were 181 water colors, drawings and a few paintings by 71 men and women, including Peter Blume...