Word: decays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert I. Wilson of Kansas City: The Administration's seeming intent to act on the principle that all successful business is crooked, we object to. . . . Your administration has . . . contributed to the decay of self-reliance and self-respect. . . . It has undermined confidence with its failure to keep a single campaign promise...
...most extraordinary quality of Seven Pillars of Wisdom is that, almost alone among modern War books, it invests warfare with a degree of glamour and heroism. Nor is this quality purchased by avoiding the gruesome butcheries, stench, gore and decay characteristic of battlefields. The glamour of Seven Pillars of Wisdom springs from the fact that most of the actions undertaken, audacious examples of individual daring such as raids into enemy country, are described with a light and mocking air, as if they were little more than schoolboy pranks. Lawrence evidently treasured all human life except his own. He was constantly...
...subverting the very constitution of which they so loudly proclaim themselves the guardian angels. Such pseudo-patriotic cliques as the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution (Sic!) whose life blood has always been publicity, have more effect upon state legislatures in their present state of decay...
...station in life, the famed historic figures seem even less real than Author Briffault's imaginary characters, who are often little more than mouthpieces for ideas and opinions. Julian took up science, plunged into work, loafed at Capri with elegant specimens of Europe's moral decay. When he met Zena again he found her married to a noble Russian pervert, became her lover, recovered his emotional health but not his ambitions, spent an idyllic summer in Germany. Skeptical and enlightened as he was, he could not believe that the War could be serious or prolonged, or that...
...Disease. This is a disease to which neurotic young women are peculiarly susceptible. After exposure to cold, shock or insult, their fingers or toes turn white, feel icy, grow numb, hurt. Attacks last from a few minutes to an hour. After many attacks the fingers or toes decay, may drop off. Sometimes the tip of the nose, the ears, parts of the lip rot away...