Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More of Lincoln's human understanding and more love for the common people than any man who has been a Presidential candidate since Lincoln's time."-Edwin J. Gross, oldtime friend and supporter of Wisconsin's late Robert Marion La Follette...
...world there always seems to be a Negro there. When Columbus discovered America a Negro piloted one of his ships. Almost every early history of the western hemisphere tells of some part taken by Negroes. As early as 1645 there were free Negroes in New York, and it is common knowledge that the first Negroes in Virginia arrived in 1619, but a few years after the white colonists at Jamestown. In the French and Indian Wars, black men did their bit, and a Negro was first to fall in the War for Independence. They were with Perry at the battle...
Helen Wills & Helen Jacobs have much in common. Jacobs once lived under the same roof that sheltered Wills when she was born; their first names are the same, they are California tennis misses. But in trading drives from the baseline neither Jacobs nor any other woman has the ability of Wills. Valiantly but with many an error Jacobs sped the ball toward her opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss...
...parents, quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees gloat upon a moral which is happily remote from the common reader...
...though, of hurting people's feelings, especially those of the people that work for him, by showing them how their jobs ought to be done. If on such occasions he did their work clumsily, it might make him popular. He does it well and then, with an obtuseness common to most intelligent and sensitive persons, forgets to apologize. His face is likely to be covered with short bristles, a condition which, as he is doubtless aware, teases and annoys. Jed Harris edits and attends to the details of producing plays with a strange, irritable, creative fervor, so that...