Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things are really so bad, perhaps something should be done about it. Mr. Wells, though silent as to the remedy, can not be expected to keep silent very long. Perhaps the solution is to banish the offending female from nursery and kindergarten, and replace her with a special importation of English Creakles...
...faculty has conferred with the different societies and each has promised to banish liquor from future initiations and to cooperate with the college and police in stopping the drinking on such occasions...
...banish gloom and bile...
...commended, but its practical; wisdom seems questionable. The removal of temptation has never, in the Social history of man, taken the place of the indispensable qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency to banish evil influences instead of enabling men to overcome them by a sense of personal responsibility. And the present move is, besides, some what reminiscent of the retreat of the eighteenth century romanticists to their ivory tower...
Were a host of Turkish missionaries to descend upon the United States with Korans and praying rugs astounded citizens might possibly banish them to the Great American desert, as they did the Mormans. Looking at matters in this light the desire of "the" unspeakable Turk" to govern his own house politically and religiously, may seem less strange and the provisions of the Lausanne treaties made clear. For years foreign nations have been allowed extra-territorial privileges in the Porte; but the energetic young Turkish republic has docreed otherwise. As an explanation for the treaties which the Turks cleverly wrung from...