Word: boasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrongs and guaranteed the security of his fundamental rights. It is therefore a serious thing for the rank and file to believe, as they do believe today--that litigation is impossible for the poor man, and that wrongs go unredressed. It is a sinister fact, too, when we boast of the ingenuity of our lawyers...
...wrongs and guaranteed the security of his private rights. It is, therefore, a serious thing for the rank and file to believe, as they do believe today, that litigation is impossible for the poor man, and that wrongs go unredressed. It is a sinister fact, too, when we boast of the ingenuity of our lawyers...
Pussyfoot Johnson's eye may not make England dry by 1930, as the prohibition workers boast, but it has certainly given John Bull something to think about. American actors and comedians have long been popular in Europe-everyone in France worships at Charlie Chaplin's altar-but we doubt the amount of applause that will greet Mr. Johnson's tour of the British Isles in the leading role of Claire Briggs's "Somebody is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life...
...Ambition shall not mock the boast...
Although the two parties are destitute of principle, they still retain some of their former characteristics, and Mr. Hoover combines the best of these characteristics in both parties. The Republicans boast, and not without reason (if the record of the Sixty-sixth Congress can be ignored for the time being), that they represent efficiency in the administration of government. Mr. Hoover has proved himself one of the greatest administrators of all time. His achievements are among the miracles of the war, and when Europe speaks of efficiency it no longer speaks of it in terms of Germany, but in terms...