Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American walked up the diplomatic stairway beneath archos of flowers to the golden reception room. In an interview with the President the Ambassador declared, under instructions from President Coolidge: "The relations we desire with this republic do not infringe in any way upon its nationality. Nations arise from deep causes that well up in individuals possessing common spiritual qualities and ideals. Your people possess theirs and we possess ours." He disclaimed any intention of aggrandizement on the part of the U. S., or a desire to exercise "a sphere of influence." The reception was followed by a luncheon...
...still put implicit faith in nonviolence, which, if strictly followed by India, will invoke the best in the British people. My hope for the attainment of Swaraj [Home Rule] by non-violence is based upon an immutable belief in the goodness which exists deep down in all human nature. . . . We need not hate Englishmen, though we hate the system they have established. They have given India a system based on force, by which they can feel secure only in the shadow of their forts and guns. We Indians, in turn, hope by our conduct to demonstrate to every Englishman that...
...same way with a lawyer or a business man. He can go all through life, without coming in contact with the pathetic side of humanity, and without ever seeing the deep emotions of which man is capable...
...your services to Harvard, to education, to scholarship, to the higher life of men, it will be the privilege of others to speak today. Yet I may give voice to one feeling deep in all our hearts; the joy that as the advancing years have given you so richly of their wisdom, they have endowed you also with continuing strength...
Here is a woman who has two great gifts; first, the gift of story telling, second, the gift of looking deep into life and understanding it analytically as well as emotionally. When these two gifts are combined in her work, I fancy that she will write a novel which will not only be as popular as her others, but will challenge the laurels of our older women novelists...