Word: arisen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time another disturbing element had arisen. At the desks, where only Yankees had sat before, well-scrubbed Irish faces began to appear. Close on the heels of the Irish came dark-haired, nimble-brained Jews. Yankee families sent their sons out of the city to Andover, Exeter, Groton. Today 95% of Latin School boys are Irish or Jewish. Headmaster Joseph Lawrence Powers, a ruddy, white-thatched, billiard-playing Irishman, is the son of immigrants from County Cavan...
...Vagabond chortles. For him "Spring's first flutes and drums" sound this morning; he has arisen, with an impulse of exquisite malice, at 8.30 and sits on the edge of his bed, knowing that the world is good and that men suffer. Already a few of the damned have twitched into topcoats and have set out on their mumbling way to the Yard. For each of them the Vagabond has a hypocritical smile of sympathy...
...Britain's reluctance to come out squarely on the subject of her relations with France, to state in as many words that if France were attacked, and Belgian neutrality violated, England would join forces against the aggressor. Today, if the Russians are right, an identical situation has arisen, and again Britain holds the key to European peace. A positive statement of her policy would almost surely postpone another large-scale War until a new system of alliances has formed. There will be strife in the near future only if France persuades her allies to cooperate in a preventive...
...Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, as usual, some painfully normal English folk were thrust into an eccentric setting, this time among the godlike inhabitants of an island just arisen from the sea. Strutting his pretty taste in paradox, Playwright Shaw again discussed polygamy, Empire, the Church, vegetarianism, Fascism, Indian Independence, medicine...
...cannot reconcile the irreconcilable. Unless re-consideration is forced in Congress, the presidential vote must be invoked. If so, we may expect a truly Herculean combat between the executive and the legislature which will be the strongest test of Roosevelt's power and character that has yet arisen...