Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political and social life, rather than to win a practical political objective. A scholar-his field was U. S. history-and a gentleman, Herbert Croly was also almost a great editor. His unruly staff, over whom he never exercised the full powers of an editor, had one common admiration-Croly. Through the New Republic's respectable but rundown portals passed some of the most incongruous people in the world: Greenwich Village poets, workers from Chicago's Hull House, old-style Caribbean revolutionaries, retired burglars, Messianic booksellers, musicians from Wall Street, bearded atheists, Nicodemus-like lawyers, authors from Idaho...
Liberal by common consent is charitable, 80-year-old John Dewey, who reiterated that Education and the mind in the frayed but clean white collar would conquer all. Liberal too is irritable Stuart Chase, who writes hotly about the conservation of U. S. resources, seems to think everybody else wants to go out and erode a lot of soil. Liberal, as everybody knows, is William Allen White, 71, Republican, editor of the Emporia Gazette, backer of Alfred Landon, who last week published The Changing West to reaffirm his liberal views. Equally liberal is Bruce Bliven, 50, editor, who steered...
...same direction of security and neutrality. And from Paris perceptive Foreign Editor Jules Sauerwein of Paris-Soir warned: "It is toward these regions of Europe that onlookers must turn during the coming weeks. They will see if these nations can forget their rivalries and grudges in the common peril." No one would be happier to forget grudges than Carol II, but none knew better than he how ingrained Balkan grudges are. Moreover, he knew that if there was to be any general grudge-settling before federation was accomplished, he would probably be called upon to give up a part...
...will all pass suddenly. At Harvard, the Square will rumble again, and the West Point cadets will march gayly off. Two minutes have ticked away, but their spirit will linger--to be cherished, to be fought for, to be preserved. At Boston Common, Legionnaires will march for Peace. At the Friends' Center, pacifists will debate for Peace. The Massachusetts Youth Committee will distribute exhortative pamphlets. The Anti-War Committee will preach their platform for Peace. The Student Union will counter with theirs. Every voice in the country will be raised towards...
...Youth Committee Against War has also reiterated its appeal for men to distribute anti-war leaflets at the legionnaire parade on Boston Common, Armistice Day. The results of this appeal have been rather negligible due to the danger of arrest or strong-arming...