Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"So is the Singapore base. To talk about this country's being provocative is sheer nonsense. Out of 352 warships building or projected, our contribution is 20. We have no lust of conquest; we have no desire for more territory; all we want is peace to protect and develop our...
"My very deep interest in the welfare of the American republics to the south and my desire for the maintenance of friendly relations among us all make it a pleasure to be of any possible service toward these ends."
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS?Eugene O'Neill concerns himself with the bitter contraries of lonely domestic life on a New England farm.
The desire of stifiled young intellectuals to rise and depart for Europe, where culture and liberty are rife finds no echo from Mr. Robert H. Lowrie. "Is America so bad, after all?" he asks, in an article in the April Century Magazine, and happily finds that it isn't. To...
Mr. Lowrie heartlessly destroys the long-cherished belief that Europe excels America in wide dissemination of culture, in unrestrained individualism, and in tolerance. Centuries of enforced hallelujahs to a reigning caste have broken down any respect for individual merit, he says, and goes on heretically: "There is no taboo among...