Word: thoughtfullness
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Over the cobblestones of Chestnut Street the carriages rolled to the Old State House (Independence Hall). Day after day thereafter the sages, the patriots, the thoughtful men of the Colonial States gathered, debated, voted, reconsidered, revised, labored mightily, always in the light of Ben Franklin's wise words. . . . "We...
Foreign Correspondent (United Artists) will confuse cinemaddicts who may have heard that it began as a filming of Vincent Sheean's Personal History. Producer Walter Wanger paid Sheean $10,000 for his thoughtful book, set two writers to adapting it, dropped the result in his wastebasket. Then he hired...
In Washington, New Dealers called the acceptance speech the greatest political failure in history, announced that Harold Ickes would answer, began talking up Ambassador Bullitt's Philadelphia address before Wendell Willkie had finished his talk. Elsewhere the speech was deemed moderately good: to the Louisville Courier-Journal, too general...
In the mountains of Washington last summer, Walter Marshall Horton (in his own words) "saved civilization on paper just as it broke down in fact." Professor Horton is a softspoken, sparse-haired theologian who teaches at Oberlin College. He likes to travel, often turns his trips into theological travelogues (Contemporary...
The thin man's thoughtful eyes were tired, his scanty hair disordered on his pallid skull. His bony shoulders drooped like a weary farmer's, his little paunch sagged in the baggy white trousers that flapped inches short of his ankles. Harry Hopkins was tired, but he was...