Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Evening Post and founder of the Nation, as a memorial of his long and brilliant service to the country of his adoption. The income from the endowment is devoted to annual lectures on some aspect of the subject: "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen...
...said nothing of the sort," said Jean Chiappe. "I said I refused the Moroccan post and would prefer to be a simple citizen in the street...
...average U. S. citizen thinks of him at all, he remembers Rutherford Birchard Hayes as a Benign Beard who was the 19th President of the United States. His memory is more important in Paraguay. A well-meaning gentleman who once thought of enlisting for the Mexican War to improve his bronchial trouble, he served as a Colonel under Sheridan in the Civil War, and was elected President in 1876 over Samuel Tilden in the closest, most bitterly disputed election ever held...
Herbert Haseltine looks like a British cavalry major, with waxed mustaches, compressed lips, erect carriage. A U. S. citizen, he was born in Rome in 1877, lives in Paris. Famed are his sculptures of gassed, War-worn horses, Les Revenants, in the London War Museum...
...proletariat." Laborers will not like his diagnosis of the cause of unemployment: "Unemployment stands everywhere in exact proportion to the height of the political wage-tariffs. . . . In Russia, Japan. China, and India there is no lack of work, because there are no luxury wages." Many a disputatious citizen will take umbrage at: "One has only to glance at the figures in meetings, public-houses, processions, and riots; one way or another they are all abortions, men who, instead of having healthy instincts in their body, have only heads full of disputatiousness and revenge for their wasted life, and mouths...