Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Ana, Calif., Sheriff Jesse Elliott described the aftermath of a county jailbirds' party featuring fermented prune and peach juice: "Colossal hangovers, loss of good behavior ratings, and social ostracism at the hands of other prisoners...
...later pages there is a slow withering of gaiety, of wit, of external interest, a dark and deepening absorption in the study of Buddhism, of the Bible in Hebrew, of the nature of reality, and of death, which at length is no longer feared. The journal ends in the aftermath of a gentle and casual dream: "Perhaps we shall be talking just like that when we awake from this life. Who could say that all our waking life was not a dream...
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Finally, there is the aftermath of war. What will happen when we add to the confusion and cynicism of 1918-1939 the increased bitterness of feeling arising out of another involvement? Those destructive and cynical elements found to a considerable extent in Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and full Machiavellian movements are the products of this confusion. Americans are psychologically even more susceptible to these than the European peoples from which we came. This statement may be demonstrated by any serious study...
...that remained in Poland last week was aftermath: mopping up, repairs, the sorting of truth from falsehood. One truth reached Manhattan with a famed world traveler and free-lance photographer, Julien Bryan. That it was a truth no one could doubt, for Photographer Bryan had recorded it in grim celluloid and emulsion...