Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exploit childhood in the hope of profits as illicit, of their kind, as any ever wrung by a conscienceless manufacturer from the labor of children at the loom. In the name of evangelism - that sacred word that has been defiled so often that it is at last almost a common butt - this horrible thing is being done." Readers wondered what the Christian Century was driving at. The author of the piece quickly made it clear that he was discussing the case of 14-year-old Uldine Utley, whose evangelical struggles had lately been endorsed by such stalwarts of the church...
...cities are everrun with the nouveaux-riches, who have developed into theatre-going crowds since the war, just like white worms swarm out of the ground when you lift up a big, flat stone, These people can buy $5.50 theatre tickets indefinitely to satisfy their morbid curiosity for common filth...
...course I gave my lectures in French for I know hardly a word of English. I have learned only one or two of the more common expressions such as: "Will you give me a kiss". Here his French interviewer interrupted M. Champion...
...truth so obvious as to be almost a platitude that what seems radical to a previous generation is a common place twenty five years later. Not only is this true in the customs and ideas which go to make up life in general, but it can perhaps be seen even more clearly in the arts and no where in the arts more obviously than in music. Wagner for example was looked upon by many of our grandparents in the same way in which the more conservative members of the present generation look upon the cacaphonus mechanics of modern workers...
...force instead of being externally applied, as through law, is to be internally administered by means of education. The proposal in its concrete form, is a bill introduced in to the Nebraska State Legislature, by State Senator Allen S. Stinson, a former school teacher, providing for courses in "common honesty, morality, courtesy, obedience to law, respect to the flag, respect for parents and the home, and the dignity and necessity of honest labor," to be given in all the grade and high schools of the state. The standards which these courses are to meet and the way in which they...