Word: cante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is less bile in All Men Are Enemies, if it seems a bit less malicious than the previous Aldington novels, it is because it is longer (574 pp.), less direct, padded. Author Aldington is finding it increasingly difficult to pick off the remaining bowling pins of pre-War cant and hypocrisy, having already sent the bulk of them crashing oft the alley...
...leader of a political party professedly reactionary and illiberal, has discovered that the most omnipotent of dictators finds his action circumscribed by the enlightenment of a modern world. His Jewish policy fortified by the pragmatic sanction of a German majority, brought down upon his head an incredible volume of cant, hysterically intoned and accompanied by dark threats of boycott and ostracism. And Mr. Hitler, who is not unaware of the position of minorities in those countries which now scorn him most openly, must be pardoned if he displays a cynical unwillingness to beat his breast and chant "Peccavi...
...sorry that i cant write english good but i hope that you have read my other leter. i told you that i wanted money to go away from the usa my home is across the ocean and i must have (50,000) fifty thousand or i will get your baby, dont that we can get it for we can and will if it takes years, i am sorry that you paid your money to the rong man when i now that he did not get your baby and if you not published it your baby would have ben with...
King that whole assembly [the House of Lords] down one or two streets in my division [constituency]. ... I denounce such plans for dealing with unemployment as humbug. . . . Humbug and downright cant...
...fifty dollars care Chungking laundry San Francisco stop refuse cover Manchuria too cold stop advice urge Stimson urge Italian embassy. Washington urge Mussolini not protest stop gravity situation exaggerated stop war put Japan on copper standard stop dispatch today states Harbin Chinese lose five hundred, Japanese ten stop Japanese cant hold out long that rate stop Chiang Kaishek probably in new capital stop advice look west of Nanking stop didnt know there was Chinese navy stop will wire all developments at intervals stop why not advise me earlier stop could have gone out on navy boats stop watch Japs Geneva...