Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bugles and smelling of camphor. There were old gentlemen with blue-veined noses and square-crowned derbies, middle-aged ladies who had not been seen in public since the last Paderewski recital, clergymen, school teachers. It was strictly a New York party, but it had national significance. Historical societies abound in the land, but this was the first U. S. museum dedicated to the history of a city and its people...
Immediately Messrs. Cummins and Darrow protested violently. Mr. Darrow wrote: "Absurd and the censors know it. . . . Pictures of the Holy Mother nursing her infant abound all over the world. . . . The story of the praying mantis is published everywhere. . . . The human embryo is in any number of textbooks. . . . Can't you argue with them? If not, my personal inclinations would be for a fight...
...Cuba, where gambling facilities abound, divorce was last week made almost as easy as in Mexico. Almost unanimous votes in both houses of the national Congress modified the Cuban law as follows: "Divorces may be granted on the application of both parties, the decrees to be known as mutual consent decrees. They will be effective within 90 days from the filing of application. Both parties shall report before courts three times, 30 days apart." The divorce becomes automatically effective if, 30 days after the decree is issued, the parties do not ask to have it set aside. The bill makes...
...retail selling agencies as fast as they are discovered and closed up. . . . Probably a much greater number of those who patronize speakeasies can afford to do so than was true in the case of the saloon. Thus the closing of the saloon has been a gain even if speakeasies abound...
...undoubtedly in the trough of a moral as well as of a business depression, not that there is any connection between them. The high moral fervor of the war period has been followed, very naturally by a cynical reaction. The evidences abound on all sides. What Agnes Repplier called the decay of reticence, and what others call by a harsher name, indicates a general breaking down of standards. The way students steal books from college libraries is another evidence of a general moral slump. These evidences cannot be entirely dissociated from political corruption, unscrupulous business methods, racketeering, and general lawlessness...