Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jacket of legal conceptions and legal institutions worked out for the simpler commercial conditions of Feudal England. Then it took an act of Parliament to bring courts to recognize an established instrument of commerce. Today a simple legislative act will seldom suffice. Also today the economic structure is so complex and so delicate that we cannot wait for things to work themselves out at a great cost in friction and waste...
Finance Minister Janssen (Socialist) was obliged to resign, and the Cabinet fell last week when Premier Viscount Poullet at length found it impossible to hold together the highly complex Centrist-Socialist coalition, which has enabled the Poullet Cabinet to carry on for eleven months...
Once upon a time, Douglas Fairbanks was satisfied with living the life of an ordinary man. Of course, he was troubled with an athletic complex which found expression in his entering houses by way of fire escapes and windows rather than through doors. But nevertheless he wore Stein-Block Clothes, rode on railroad trains, and in general portrayed "the man in the street...
...party throughout the state; while a national party contains manifold units of unequal cohesion. The men who run politics take a fancy to leaving the door wide open for rebellion, usurpation, and insubordination. They work, as Mrs. Blair remarks not by program but by prowess. They have a fight complex...
...long acted by program, unhampered in her kingdom of accomplishment, while man as warrior, bread winner, or political warder has always faced competition, and, being long habituated, now creates that competition where it is found lacking. This is equivalent to warning feminists that they too will acquire the fight complex, if indeed they have not got with some quarters already. But the impression also remains that Mrs. Blair has shown women, whether more or less cultured than men, to be innately more academic...