Word: ancien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their services of protection and consolation and continued to demand those privileges long after they had ceased to do their duty. Society today is little tolerant of useless shibboleths. If we demand our privileges and refuse our duties we cannot expect so long a shrift as was granted the "ancien regime," and we can only hope that our fall may be, not less sudden, but less fatal...
...Last Days of the Ancien Regime," Professor Doolin, Boylston...