Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behavior of the Oxford Union last week was more than a campus scandal. To the whole rugged, wealthy British upper middle class (not to mention the peerage & landed gentry) it was a national calamity. They had known that the Oxford Union, that famed debating society which is the traditional school for British statesmen, has been increasingly attended by studious greasy grinds, apt to be Laborites. But what indeed was the Empire coming to when the Union sank so low last week as to adopt by a vote of 275-to-153 this proposition...
...nation's headlines. Two thousand eminent men and women gave her a banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Intended as a tribute to an able woman who had achieved a career in her own right, it had the effect of retorting to criticism of her behavior as First Lady-elect: too much spotlight, too little dignity...
...There was a mean trick played on us somewhere. God put us in the bodies of animals and tried to make us act like people." says Patriarch Ty Ty, in a kind of final apology for the outrageous behavior of his children. Old Ty Ty was a Georgia cracker whose dusty little farm lay fallow while he and all his family dug in it for gold. Sometimes their faith wavered, but never Ty Ty's. Fifteen years he had been digging. When he heard that an albino was supposed to be a good divining-rod he went and roped...
...time in Moscow, saw many a dawn break over the Kremlin. When he married an Australian girl he turned over a new leaf-for a while. Then rumors of his goings-on with a Russian Jewess reached his Ambassador, who spoke to him sorrowfully, extracted a pledge of good behavior. Three weeks later, the pledge broken, Lockhart was sent to England "for a rest." When he went back as head of the British Mission in 1918 his wife stayed behind and his mistress lived with him openly until he left Russia for good, two years later. Frank about his domestic...
...great social organizations, two, the economic and the governmental, are growing at a rapid rate, while two others, the church and the family, have declined in social significance, although not in human values. . . . Church and family have lost many of their regulatory influences over behavior...