Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readers have long ago forgotten or decided to ignore Kipling's political creed for the sake of his storytelling, his motto-memorable verse: Mr. Shanks sternly reminds them that they had better not. Whether or not Kipling was a profound thinker, he was an effective preacher, and he never came down from the pulpit, even when he was conducting services ostensibly for the children (The Jungle Books, Just So Stories...
...desire this because although I love England very dearly and consider this lovely island the best spot in the world, I'm a convinced internationalist. I like to feel I'm just a tiny part of universal life which will one day break down all divisions of creed or speech and economic barriers and make mankind one great eternal unit both in life and death...
Major Corcoran strongly admires Franklin Roosevelt and "that remarkable woman who is his wife," as strongly deprecates the U. S. male's rabbitlike divorcing habits, his "I-can-take-it creed." Of the touted U. S. vitality he remarks: "No one was ever less of a born go-getter than the American. He is almost saurian in his sloth." Nervous instability is quite another matter: "I have never seen so much St. Vitus dance as since I've been here." For some years Wyndham Lewis has been one of the toughest, most provocative satirists alive. It is something...
...dreamed of a world-wide brotherhood with the background of a common race and creed, consecrated to the service of peace: Britain enriching the rest out of her culture and traditions. . . . I saw in the Empire a means of giving to the congested masses at home open country instead of a blind alley. . . . Our creed was not based on antagonism to any other people. It was humanitarian and international; we believed that we were laying the basis of a federation of the world. . . . The 'white man's burden' is now an almost meaningless phrase; then it involved...
Consistently, A. Y. C. has refused to condemn Communism by name, or purge itself of Communist Party members or the Young Communist League. Its reason: to deny anyone a hearing is contrary to its creed. But a frequent charge against the Congress has been that an articulate and fast-stepping Communist minority has determined A. Y. C. policies, kept them lashed to the Communist Party line. One grown-up who is convinced that A. Y. C. is dominated by the Communists is ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney. In the attempt to get a "pro-American" bloc into the Congress...