Word: assertation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burnt out? Replace them! Replace them! Let not thy mind be dimmed by any weak blue haze. And ye able men of Adams, men with hearts of gold, rise above the ethereal blue and shine! Even though ye be a House divided, ye cannot fall. Turn on the lights. Assert thyselves! Ho! eager men of Eliot, ye Green Knights of metrical romance, where is thy chivalry, thy honor? Gawain is thy peer, no blue haired fairy of Pinochio. Light up! Light...
...Scene 2, only a year after her coronation, "Vicky" has already begun to assert her Teutonic stubbornness. Her colloquy with Lord Melbourne, in which she gently lets that Prime Minister understand that she will accept his matrimonial advice provided that it coincides with her own wishes, is strongly reminiscent of Actress Hayes' pert and pretty Bab period...
...theme is a stimulating one, and handled with proper emphasis and directorial skill. One might wish to see the pacifist remain true to his ideals and declare once for all that, when it comes to war, the individual must assert himself even if it was contrary to the group. This is a vital problem, one of dramatic and almost necessarily tragic intensity, which "So Red the Rose" has introduced, but not fully developed...
...belonging to both bodies and men belonging to either, assert that there is no conflict between the aims of the two societies. This point is not likely to be contested. The natural objection takes just the opposite form: that there is too much coincidence of aim. The Association is obscure because its main purpose is to assure fair play for its constituency. Since there is little occasion to struggle for this precious possession at Harvard, the Association has won neither fame nor notoriety. Anyway, its function is to prevent unfair discrimination against professors and to assure them of proper salaries...
...seven months ago, he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges: against the personality and policies of the man who defeated him and against those in his own party who regard him as a discredited liability. Last week came a golden opportunity to flay the former, assert his titular party leadership to the latter when Young Republicans from eleven Western States met 1,200 strong at the Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland, Calif. It was the 31st President's first strictly political speech since he left Washington. It was also the first formal forensic broadside...