Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Historians of another century will record the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during the "World War," and its fall thereafter, according to humor. A Carlyle will call it a peculiarly malignant form of social indigestion, where avaricious scoundrels milked a large and ignorant public of great sums in "membership fees," in return for inflaming mass prejudices against
...government, realizing how much more importance is usually attached to injured dignity than to actual harm, is wise enough to sooth the cries from the Southward. But in the meantime Americans will doubtless continue to call themselves Americans, and Mr. Mencken's favorite column-heading need not for a while yield to a less euphonious name...
...names that blazed before it a decade ago, Wilson is dead. Lloyd George is following the faint glow of his political star, that once shone like a sun; Clemenceau, in quiet oblivion, is writing his memoirs; the magic name of Hindenburg alone has been strong enough to call a wartime hero from retirement back into the world. But a few weeks ago Earl Haig, who had once fought the old Prussian general died; and Wednesday another of those whose courage stood the crucible test of 1917 and 1918 followed...
...down to brass tacks. We are very anxious to get this appointment [Prosecuting Attorney of Marion County]. You go into the room of your private secretary, and when you return there will be $10,000 in the drawer of your desk. No one will know about it. You can call Remy over and tell him you changed your mind...
...husband he was defending on the charge of murder, only to find both man and wife members of a harsh crowd of criminals. Eventually he escapes from his dilemma by sending the wife to jail for five years and planning to have the sentence quickly cut down. Such proceedings call for no small amount of insight and ingenuity to make them credible. A good deal has been supplied, but not enough. The play works itself up to a pitch of considerable excitement and then subsides, fizzling feebly. Robert Ames, who sometimes acts in the movies, availed himself ably...