Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constitution of the U. S. tolerates creeds, but it favors none. Hence, the only demand the Klan makes of the Roman Catholic Church is that she cease meddling in American politics, and that she come down from her self-erected pedestal of special privilege and take her place alongside the Methodist, Baptist and other churches...
...Germany will receive a permanent seat on the Council as the result of diplomatic conversation, not as the result of a demand on her part...
...Germany has not demanded a mandate to administer her lost colonies, nor will she make such a demand, "at least for the present...
...said that the historical romances of Alexandre Dumas are in more demand at the Public Library than any other fiction. Doubtless the books most read are "The Three Musketeers," "Twenty Years After" and "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," in which the intrepid d'Artagnan holds the front of the stage as a young blade who never refuses a passage at anms, as a mature fighting man whose wrist is steadier and whose judgement more sure, and as a veteran whose character has become nobler with his years and whose valor remains equal to any test. It must have been with...
...politics, which have appeared in the "Correspondant" and other French periodicals. Last winter he published a series of articles on French literature from 1880 to 1924 which have attracted wide attention. M. Fay is one of the leaders of the modern French school, and he has been in great demand as a lecturer on the modern theories of criticism...