Word: delusional
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All dire forebodings are promptly fulfilled. In the dark abode of the Séverins, where no sunlight ever penetrates, the exiles are tormented by a hideous assortment of demons. The worst of their enemies is old Colonel Séverin, whose history is so involved that most of the...
President of the congress was Sir Walter Citrine, once a most trusted British working-class leader whom many now consider foolish for having accepted knighthood at the hands of King George. In an exciting keynote address Sir Walter indicted Fascism as "lawless, aggressive imperialism which recognizes no right but the...
"We do not question the motives of Mr. Prince or those who may be associated with him in lending the $1,000,000 to the operating company," said he, "but 99 years is a long time, and our memories need not run very far back to illustrate my point." Mr...
As a seer, Colonel Ayres is by no means infallible. Though he viewed the 1929 stockmarket with a jaundiced eye, he was talking about the "last phase of the Depression" as early as the autumn of 1930. He can analyze other people's analyses with devastating results. Yet his...
This is, of course, an exaggeration. But is the delusion that naturally arises from the primitive power of this picture. One sees the Jews abandoning ghettoes and launching into robust pioneering, and one forgets that there are still throngs of them in homelessness and persecution. One forgets, that is, until...