Word: avow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which assumed that public service was a duty. Grandfather Lodge was the scholar in politics, arrogant, cultivated and intelligent. Henry Adams, a lifelong, sometimes malicious friend of Grandfather Lodge, once wrote of him: "He betrayed the consciousness that he and his people had a past, if they dared but avow it, and might have a future, if they could but divine...