Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, the German government, followed them with a very personal message for his friend's wife: "I beseech you to believe in my sorrowful sympathy in the mourning which strikes you so cruelly. I shall ever guard a precious memory of your husband who in following a common ideal gave me an opportunity of appreciating the high level of his views and the perfect loyalty of his character." It was significant of the world's opinion that editors everywhere wasted little time with formal obituaries. In Germany newspapers were black bordered, Stresemann's seat in the Reichstag...
...Thieving as a Moslem," is a common term of reproach among Bengal Hindus. 'Vain as a Babu,"* is the prompt response of Bengal Mohammedans. Last week Calcutta's Mohammedan quarter shook with Homeric laughter at the latest, greatest example of Babu vanity. Potent among Bengal market-gardeners is the wealthy Roy Mukerji Das, who employs 2,000 laborers in his truck gardens, holds a virtual monopoly of the Calcutta vegetable market. Last week, pondering his own potency, the great Roy Mukerji Das sent a letter to officials of the Calcutta Markets Committee: "Honored Gentlemen: "Herewith I make application...
...White Motor Co. is located at Cleveland, its products sell from $1,545 to $8,000. The headquarters of the Coca-Cola Co. are in Atlanta, Ga., its products sell from 5? to 10?. Yet these two $50,000,000 companies have long had something in common and last week that bond was strengthened...
...reasonable and intelligent protest against what is now considered the abuse of censorship. Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common ground. That there should be some assembly whose function would be to discuss and criticize matters that come up for censorship, submitting at least an advisory opinion to the body in which the actual power is vested, has become manifest. It is probably too much to hope that the meeting...
...inadequacy of the present legal code of the United States has been explained so often as to have become a common-place. In the midst of the tremendous progress made by such branches of society as commerce and science, the law been slow in adapting itself to new conditions. The Sherman Anti-Trust laws, to use a familiar illustration, are already hopelessly antiquated to deal with modern business. By nature of its bulk and intimate connection with the past, the legal code is usually one of the last phases of society to adapt itself to changing environment...