Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pomp. "At 9:30, exactly on time, as always, the orchestra struck up God Save the King. As we all rose to our feet the royal procession entered, preceded by two Indians in scarlet coats and black and gold striped turbans, and officers walking backward, their swords held before them...
...most expensive players, keeps them in a good humor. He paid his former saxophonist, Ross Gorman, $50,000 a year. His own earnings are about $500,000 a year. He likes striped ties and custard, owns a ranch near Denver, likes to wear an old golf cap turned backward, takes a private doctor with him when traveling, can make faces as funny as Fatty Arbuckle's used...
...support of Two-Way Time Dr. Lewis suggested that a motion picture of the universe could as well be run backward as forward, would defy no laws. Accepting two-way Causality it is possible to conceive that events which will happen tomorrow might have influenced Caesar to cross the Rubicon...
...mobbed by the Fascists. Following this trial Salvemini went into voluntary exile, which subsequently became permanent. Losing his citizenship he became a man without a country, and since that time has acted as the unquestioned intellectual leader of the anti-Fascists. Unqualifiedly opposed to Fascism, which he considers a backward step, Professor Salvemini is now the ablest antagonist of Mussolini...
...When in 1919 and 1920 Prohibition was a 'new broom, it swept clean.' Since then we went backward for a time . . . but at no time to where we started. . . . We seem now to be passing through Prohibition at Its Worst. . . . The liquor problem, like the race problem, is an insoluble problem and will remain so for at least a generation. . . . All the evils of Prohibition claimed by the Wets exist. . . . But what is their program for coping with these evils? Virtually they have none, because they have so many and none of them practicable...