Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not make the laws. He does his best to execute them whether he likes them or not. The corruption in enforcement activities which caused a former Republican Prohibition Administrator to state that three-fourths of the dry agents were political ward heelers named by politicians without regard to Civil Service laws and that prohibition is the 'new political pork barrel,' I will ruthlessly stamp out. Such conditions can not and will not exist under any administration presided over...
...quoted Holy Writ for the good of my soul, I reciprocate in the spirit of a sincere desire to help you by suggesting that you restudy the entire Ten Commandments, as those Heaven-given precepts have been vastly useful in the past in creating and preserving good order in civil society. I have seen with a considerable degree of satisfaction your vigorous action against the gamblers and their camp followers, the prostitutes and bootleggers, up Saratoga way since some of us began prodding into your 'record'; though I regret that some of this holy zeal and energy...
...Still (he was originally an orthodox, allopathic physician), after serving in the Civil War, developed the principles of osteopathy. Basic is his theory that health persists only when the joints and other skeletal articulations function normally. This is especially important for the ribs, spine, pelvis. If the bones are in proper relation, then flesh, nerves and other parts of the anatomy hung on to them, function properly and prevent the invasion of disease. Inversely, to cure disease, the doctor must manipulate the bones into natural position. Hence the fundamental osteopathic principle: "Find the lesion, adjust it, and let it alone...
...Holy Father . . . who was the first to treat China not only on a footing of perfect equality but with true and special sympathy . . . is overjoyed and thanks the Almighty for the end of the civil...
...Strewn like dead pears before the Henry House Or the stonewall of Jackson breathe its parched Devouring breath upon the failing charge. . . . The Significance. "What America needs is a good five cent cigar"-and not till now has it had an adequate story or poem of the Civil War (aside from Walt Whitman's Lincoln). Yet, the Civil War surpasses in colorful drama any other episode in U. S. history, and Poet Benet proves it so. Delving into that not quite forgotten past, he reproduces atmosphere and currents of passion. Through 377 pages of close-packed verse, his rhythm...