Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Romans worship 'elements,' but our Lord Jesus Christ therein enshrined. Your reference to certain clubs was unworthy and dastardly. Opposition does not worry us, we are used to that, but slander does, so good-bye to TIME & its alliance with the Jews, Turks, Infidels & heretics who claim the right to dictate to the Catholic Church in England as to the ways of approaching & worshipping...
...worth the price. But the real point of interest in that record for the American people now, if Governor Smith will defend it, is the picture of Tammany putting pressure on fine, aspiring young men like Al Smith . . . how it overlays his conscience with Tammany psychology. . . . "I make no claim here that Smith is a Tammany plug-ugly. I honor him for having risen from the debasing subserviency. . . . This record is, of course, the old record of a young man. But the young man rose on this record. . . . The Tammany system goes on today as it went on 100 years...
...become more succulent to the victor. Pigmies. Suspicious of the white man, Congo Pigmies often set thin, poisoned stakes point upward in his path. He, knowing or fearing that they are always watching, perhaps with poisoned arrows drawn, may without difficulty become crazed with fear. The few whites who claim familiarity with Congo Pigmies have reported that these four-foot folk not only claim to be descended from monkeys, but state that they know they are, because the Congo Monkeys still occasionally live with them. . . . Their Belgian Majesties of course avoided the terrors and obscenities of the Pigmy Forest, last...
...contemporary Russia-the issue between Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin and the great Communist whom he has exiled (TIME, Jan. 23, 30), famed Leon Trotsky, creator of the Red Army. Stalin stands for the more reactionary and Trotsky for the more revolutionary elements among Russian Communists. Stalin and Trotsky both claim to be the "intellectual successor" to the late Father of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Lenin, whose words are still the guiding oracles of Soviet policy. Stalin has triumphed over Trotsky and his chief followers, expelling them from the Communist party and banishing them from Soviet Russia. But last week Trotsky...
Most makers claim a base of rice for their powders. But many a woman hides a red nose with much the same chalk dust that her grandmother used. Her grandmother went to the drugstore, bought chalk drops and crushed them herself. Now she could choose between a multiplicity of powders, scented, exotically labeled, but not far different from the - chalk-drops...