Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continue. So not alone will the subway sensual glean his grit from pink periodicals of dubious editing, but the uniformed saviour of souls and director of difficulties, moral, matrimonial and vehicular will find some journal of the haute monde of cleverness and thin satire on which to base his belief that the movies are right, that sin sits in high places. There will be times when other papers, with even less to damn them than "Hatrack" and less to sell them than Mencken, rest in naughty niches safe from the gaze of the Bostonian and the blessed...
...subject of the United States' entry into the League. "The value of our being a member will not be so much to ourselves as to the other nations of the world from the added prestige which our participation will bring to the League." He also reiterated his belief that the time was not far distant which would see this country a member of the League...
...Rotary Clubs and other social organizations of a like nature make men more sensible of their social obligations? I think so, for it has long been essential that we break down the widespread belief that one's own business is foreign and unconnected to other business enterprises. It is a matter of social significance that this view of business is gradually losing force...
...peace-time basis. From certain quarters ominous croakings are heard to the effect that the Genevan flasco has revealed the hollowness of the new spirit and sounded the death knell of the League. Yet in the harmony prevailing among the Locarno signatories, there is cause for the belief that the progress of international understanding has incurred only a temporary check. The longing of the war-torn European nations for a new world order is still strong...
...from the very hall in which he was cheered last week, as he uttered felicitous words: "I cherish the hope that some day all Ireland will be loyal, united within itself, and united to the Empire. . . . You may believe that this is only a dream, but it is my belief that the Irish question has entered a stable phase and that the suspense, apprehension and dread of disturbance have passed away...