Word: birthright
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...Lift up your heads, gallant Frenchmen. Not all the infamies of Darlan and Laval shall stand between you and the restoraion of your birthright...
...order . . . must turn to a tyrant for its hero and leader." Democracy, "awkward, sluggish, often sadly wasteful," nevertheless gives the freest play to the "common kindly impulse of organized humanity," but it will only survive if the democratically trained citizen - "naturally a bit lazy, instinctively inclined to improvidence, by birthright glad to let well enough alone" - decides in his heart that the democratic way of life is a good...
...artistically phlegmatic, individual. Of the comparatively few men who have succeeded in making a small part of our population structure-conscious. Frank Lloyd Wright is perhaps foremost. "Man takes a positive hand in creation whenever he puts a building upon the earth beneath the sun. If he has a birthright at all, it must consist in this: that he, too, is no less a feature of the landscape than the rocks, trees, bears or bees of that nature to which he owes his being". These words, found in a book recently published by Wright, might give an inkling...
...Canadians, but are at heart Englishmen first, last and always, is properly and politely called the British Commonwealth of Nations. In wartime, it is the British Empire. No test applied to its unity could be more certain of positive reaction than the test of Hitlerism: autarchic despotism v. the birthright of freeborn Britons. The British Empire's far-flung parts approached that test last week in different ways. Alphabetically...
...Four A's found the A. F. A. guilty on all but part of one count, revoked its charter. This birthright Four A's thereupon presented to a new union, the American Guild of Variety Artists, with a constitution all written. Day later, the Guild was hard at work signing up A. F. A. members. A. F. A. executives declared they would go to court. Sophie Tucker said brittlely: "It is all very amusing. It is very funny...