Word: selfishly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What story Ring boasts concerns a cold-blooded young man-about-town who hires a pretty young nobody (Stella Andrew) to come to the ball in the hope that she can bewitch his sensitive twin brother out of the clutches of a selfish heiress. What with being so ignominiously employed and with falling in love with her callous employer, the girl has a miserable evening. But if she is wretched from being poor and in love and not in society, so are most of those who are rich and in society and not really in love, who go yawning through...
...that he was still weak from his recent fast ... I asked Gandhi if he would accept the American ballpoint pen I had in my vest pocket." When secretaries scrambled for the trinket, "turning to me [Gandhi] said with a wan smile, 'You see how I am surrounded by selfish sinners...
...Selfish Interests. Germany and Japan . . . should be made into going concerns. If we have in fact adopted the policy of making peace with Germany and Japan, we should make that fact clear to our people and to the world, and we should focus on it-not drift but drive toward it-without wasting too much precious time "exploring possibilities" or fussing with "procedure difficulties." The urgency is great and the time is short...
Second is a mere selfish consideration. The proposed plan would at least keep the colleges half full or more. What would be the effect on the colleges if the other plan were adopted and we lost, next summer, all or most of our present students and got no new students for two years? All private colleges are in economic difficulties now some of the weaker ones might go under. Others would be in a weakened condition for years and the balance would swing strongly towards the tax-supported institutions. Harvard would survive no doubt and, provided the bills could...
...biggest daily newspaper, agreed with the court. Said the Press: "Freedom of the press is too important a bulwark of our way of life to be dragged in as an alibi for trying to get rid of a competitor . . . Freedom of the press, is ... not an excuse for selfish or arrogant behavior...