Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Smith would rather die than suffer this stigma. The Senate has been his life ambition, and to say that he shall be disqualified because of an act that was not illegal, has never been illegal and is not illegal today, is incomprehensible...
Last week the man who is Congressman-Hamilton Fish Jr., born 1888-talked in terms of generations: "When this country reaches a population of two hundred or two hundred and fifty million people . . . some overt act of Mexico will force us to go down there. If it does, I hope we will go to stay and bring two or three million Americans down there to bring law and order to that Godforsaken country...
Significance. Statesmen deemed that the Herr President deserved all praise for thus squarely putting up to his own Nationalist friends the issue of joining the Government at the price of supporting the Republic. This was an act of genuine statesmanship, of greatness, yet it must be remembered that many another German statesman prepared the ground for the bold step which the Herr President took, and forced the Nationalists to take last week...
...factions in Mexico. "Mexicans ain't all there," opined Bob. "They don't know how to manage. Two factions raise all the racket. It's the same in China. The Chinese have so many languages among themselves. We are also more civilized than the Chinese, we know how to act, how to control ourselves. They can only say "no checkee . . . no laundree". But it's different with the Italians. They made good in this country. It it wasn't for them we wouldn't have no subways. They went down in the 'bowels of the earth...
Four American undergraduates have in the last month committed suicide. Not one of them died without leaving behind some sort of explanation of his act, ranging from the extreme lassitude and disillusion of one to the boundless curiosity of another. Not content with the motives of the actors themselves, the American audience has already begun to psycho-analyze their individual and collective decease...