Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whip David Lloyd George popped many a stinging comment in his coarsest and least happy vein. Labor Whip Ramsay Macdonald egged on J. H. Thomas, usually one of the calmest Laborites, to make no less than twelve disparaging orations. Meanwhile sleepy members formed quartets and sang the U. S. Civil War ditty "John Brown's Body" to keep awake. Recitations of "Pop Goes the Wease"? were loudly applauded in the lobbies, while one right honorable member chanted...
...Mencken was unable to speak at the Liberal Club last night, but his attorney, Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, appeared in his stead. Mr. Mencken has agreed to be present at luncheon at the Union today...
Government 19b, Professo Yeomans, Harvard 2, "Deprivation of Civil Liberty...
Yesterday morning Mencken arrived in Boston with his attorney Arthur Garfield Hays, who is counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, determined, to force the issue on the suppression. He immediately got in touch with Chase and warned him that at 2 o'clock he would sell a copy of the American Mercury to any purchaser who would meet him in front of the Park Street Church...
...South, which made so eminent a contribution to the art of living during her middle century heyday, has been facing an increased danger of sectional crudity incidental to her great industrial and agricultural progress. In the halcyon days of the pre-civil war period southern plantations were everywhere famous as centers of cultured, cavalier life. Remote traces of this somehow managed to survive the evils of reconstruction. The last twenty-five years have, however, threatened to destroy the few remaining vestiges of this life. The rising tide of commercial prosperity in which all classes shared and the recent influx...