Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Government's Kenya White Paper of 1923 which Kenya whites hate and which would have astounded Empire Builder Rhodes. It laid down the rule: "The interests of the African natives must be paramount, and that if, and when, those interests, and the interests of the immigrant races should conflict, the former should prevail. . . . The principle of trusteeship for the natives ... is unassailable...
...cliches of politics. Written with obviously frowning care, The Challenge to Liberty is thick with such muddy passages as this: "Today, these complexities, added to the aftermaths of war, loom large, and the voices of discouragement join with the voices of other social faiths to assert that an irreconcilable conflict has arisen in which Liberty must be sacrificed upon the altar of the Machine Age." Liberals will be surprised to hear Herbert Hoover speaking in defense of Liberalism but will soon discover that what he means by Liberalism is the old U.S. of "rugged individualism." Says...
There was one reassuring event in the conflict of emotions. The Belgrade garrison paraded in full war equipment and repeated its oath of fealty to the royal family and loyalty to the established government...
...without its proper and essential influence on the rest of the nation, which sorely needed, as it needs today, what the South had to give." Because "no type of property now owned in the United States is sectional, as slavery property was," Author Adams sees no future irreconcilable conflict between the States, but thinks that "we might have . . . civil war again, though not sectional" as the "ultimate and bloody solution of any Constitutional deadlock...
Considered apart, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple each have undoubtedly a considerable appeal, but when combined in one picture their talents fall somewhat into conflict. If it presented only one of these stars, "Now and Forever," running this week at the Paramount and Fenway theatres, it would probably be better than the average movie, but this fault condemns it to mediocrity...