Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down to an American were sadly lacking in loyalty. They are probably in the pay of the Reds! I should be grateful for an answer to this question., so that when I return to England I can tell my friends: Why an American woman should concern herself with the behavior of the heir to the British Throne...
...even then such are the fallacies due to the well-known principles of rationalizing and compensating, that a very precise questionnaire by experts is necessary to elicit reliable facts. Too much feeling enters into the question to settle if off hand by superficial questioning. The best test is behavior...
Small boys are rarely in evidence at football games. A few are always present, of course, sandwiched between a pair of bulky persons in coonskins, or throned in the cheering section, where they regard with intent, disdainful faces the puerile behavior of their older brothers. Most of them, however, attend these contests in spirit alone?which partly accounts for their devotion to football. Pigskin heroes can assume mythical proportions for eyes that have never beheld them. James Thorpe, the Indian, was a coppery comet, leaping in seven-league strides over a field of endless goal-lines; the right...
...British statesman said: "From the beginning he [Page] believed that Great Britain was right and Germany was wrong." Page wrote to Wilson speaking of "the completely barbarous behavior of Prussians." He swallowed the British propaganda whole. The day after the U. S. entered the War "a well known Englishman happened to meet Page leaving his house. . . .'Thank God' the Englishman said, 'there is one hypocrite less in London today. 'What do you mean?' asked Page. _ 'I mean you. Pretending all this time that you were neutral: That isn't necessary any longer...
...Amundsen severed all connections with the German nation when, during the war, he returned his honorary membership of German societies. Not until Amundsen has made proper amends for his offensive behavior to Germany, the result of misrepresentations by the anti-German press, will this firm consent to publish any more of his works...