Word: citizenness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rate, even though the Governor need fear the powers of heaven, he need not fear the restrictions of man while he maintains his hold on the political throat of Massachusetts. Children in the streets, women at crossings, the citizen at the wheel had best beware. So long as Curley rides abroad their days are numbered...
...scracely be expected to set the public back on its heels today. The motives of the pamphlet's sponsors, therefore, can only be described as slanderous and publicity-seeking. These men, in the name of decency, should have directed their resentment against President-Emeritus Lowell as a private citizen, not as one of the honored heads of a University in the midst of celebrating its birthday by entertaining the foremost scholars of the world...
...France can cite her own example. For three months the Government has been carrying out important social reforms. It has done so with the widest popular movement of expectation and hope. But it has done so without a single clash between citizens, without order having been disturbed in the street a single time, without a single institution having been overthrown, without a single citizen having been despoiled...
Early one morning last week in the heart of London the bells of Southwark Cathedral clanged to commemorate a distinguished act by an otherwise undistinguished Southwark citizen named John Harvard. Across the Atlantic in Cambridge, Mass., great scholars from the earth's four corners joined in solemn procession to pay homage to the school that John Harvard helped to found. After 300 years Harvard was not only the oldest and richest university in the U. S. but also one of the world's brightest lamps of learning...
...moneyed uncle in Boston paid Sculptor Lovet-Lorski's passage to the U. S., of which he became a citizen in 1925. With a real talent for sculpture and a full bag of social tricks, "Lorochka" had no trouble in soon making a place for himself, has not lacked money, friends or customers...