Word: communing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close vote the Conservatives were placed in power and immediately banished Mrs. Hutchinson to Rhode Island to commune with the Devil and the Indians, and then took up the unfinished business of erecting a building for the college which had been voted two years previously...
...Britain's famed Civil Service (in which the candidate may be required to discuss anything from the causes of British hostility to Russia, 1815-1878, to the proposition, "The ballad is not literature"), but they are stiff enough to baffle most bright young Phi Beta Kappas. Cautious candidates commune with Mr. Roudybush for four months before attempting them. Confident candidates take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece for the privilege. His school, now housed in a three-story Georgetown mansion, was founded...
...taxpayers called at the homes of their representatives. One party of them broke into the parlor of Paul Maurice Jacquier, Reporter General of the Budget, and sat there until ejected by police. France has not been a Republic so long. There are plenty of Frenchmen who remember the bloody Commune of 1871, the conspiracy of General Boulanger. One who remembers both these things is elderly Senator Marcel Regnier. In the Agence Economique last week he wrote...
...grown farmers thereabouts began to complain of midnight raids on their sheep. Locking Bertrand in his room only made him worse. Finally he escaped; Aymar tracked him into Paris by a trail of murders. During the siege of the city (this was in 1870) and the nightmare of the Commune, Werewolf Bertrand fed at will. But by the time Aymar found him Bertrand had fallen in love and was making desperate efforts to cure himself. But he was too far gone; one night he was caught redhanded, red-mouthed. Aymar, by now thoroughly convinced that the Medieval Church was right...
Professor Mason is a leading authority on socialism and communism, and has published several monographs on socialist leaders, as well as a history of the Paris Commune. The lecture this afternoon will deal with the fundamental principles of socialist society...