Word: clime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Which are meant in this clime...
...remained in the South, traditional submission to the status quo delayed any acute outcropping of racial ill feeling. But the World War uprooted the negro's traditional attitude toward his lot, and the exodus to the North began. Coming in even greater numbers to new homes in a new clime, the negro finds his absolute position better than before, but his relative position worse. The ties that held him in the South are cut asunder. His inferiority complex is cast off. Now for the first time he realizes that he is a man. In outward shows the North accords...
...flicker of controversy. Amiable ladies and gentle men have as gallantly as unsolicitedly taken the occasion to rush into print and explain exactly how they feel as to relative justice and intelli gence shown in the awards. Meanwhile the weary judges, let us hope, are recuperating in some pleasant clime unvexed by newspaper-clippings. It must be the devil of a business, hunting among contemporary books and plays for a Cinderella to fit the little glass slipper...
...same old cloth. Let's see what can be done to make another Pudding Show. Not a new Pudding Show--just another. The Formula prescribes that the first act shall be in a modern environment, that the action shall somehow translate the cast to a foreign and somewhat exciting clime, and that until quarter of eleven trouble without end shall visit upon the personnel until a naval leftanent (or its equivalent) shall bust clean through the back drop and settle the whole problem of how many of the audience not related to the cast get home before the next calendar...
...knows what he wants and how he means to get it is very apt to succeed; and this is not more true of material aims than of higher ones. The object of true religion in every age and every clime has been to search out those things that are of eternal value. Ascetics and mystics have sometimes carried their exaltation so far as to despise the things by which mankind must live, but the great mass of men have erred in the other direction, by seeking only the things of the present. True religion and spiritual wisdom consist in regarding...