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...lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin', en Brer...
...Coffee and sugar are Santo Domingo's chief crops. For the past year coffee and sugar plantations have had poor crops. When this happens, the citizenry are naturally "agin the government...
Actually the Frankau weekly Britannia stood not for but against everything British or foreign which did not come within the extreme Fascist fringe of the little Semite's whims. He was "agin" the Government of Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, "agin" the David Lloyd George Liberals, "agin" the Ramsay MacDonald Laborites, but chiefly "agin" everything remotely hailing from the U. S.-where Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau reaped thousands of dollars from book sales and lectures about himself to U. S. women's clubs...
...mere critic, more than a professor of French literature. If society in its broadest sense had the same nomenclature as political parties, he might well be called the leader of the opposition. Not that Professor Babbitt is in any sense like the much caricatured radical, bomb in hand, "agin' society": rather the opposition--, as the himself is fond of putting it--, is "the opposition of the Real to the welter of the Actual...
...Agin High Rents We Are Agin High Interest We Are Agin High Taxes...