Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these bonds in Boston were held by sixteen men. The shops direct the politics of those who frequent them, and these sixteen men in turn direct the politics of the shops. They thus control the local politics of Boston, and constitute an oligarchy far more dangerous to this common wealth than any man like Caesar or Napoleon ever will be. The open bar is the chief instrument of this ring in the government of Boston. If a supply of the fatal alcoholic poison must be kept somewhere, as many people assure us, let if be in miserable...
Under "Topics of the Day," discussion is given to "Bloody Monday Rushes," - a subject to which old Mother Advocate seems to cling with an undiminished pertinacity, - and "The Conditions of College Success." The latter is full of common sense and the key-note of the whole is struck in the concluding lines of the discussion, "The truest success lies rather in making the most of one's advantages than in attaining a flattering prominence in scholarship, societies, or athletics...
...existence. There is little need of presenting any of these pictures, and yet their very familiarity makes them often unimpressive and obscures much of their splendor. The night, with its stars moving with in evitable accuracy or a day of sunlight or one of clouds and wind are too common, not for a man who has opened his eyes to the infinite System, but for one who takes it as a matter of course. In sum, a true lover of nature becomes in some degree a lover of God. If he wearies of dry doctrines and explanations and feels that...
...been inconsistent in policy in regard to municipal honors. Lodge's speech in Boston Herald of Oct. 8, 2. His party's leaders have violated their pledges on the same subject: Allen's speech in Boston Journal Sept. 7. - (e) He has spoken of the common wealth and her interests in a derogatory manner, unbecoming to the dignity of his office and that of the people: Gov. Russell's speech at a dinner of the Reform Club, New York City...
...Sept. 29. - (b) Its position en the vital subject of temperance is one of hostility: Sodge's speech in Boston Harald of Sept. 7. Greenhalge's speech in Boston Journal of Oct. 6. - (c). The Massachusetts Democracy is in its methods, measures, and general make-up dangerous to the Common wealth: Boston Herald as quoted in Lodge's speech of Sept. 17 Boston Journal of Oct. 6, Long's speech in Boston Herald of Sept. 27 W. W. Crapo's speech in Boston Herald of Sept...