Word: despoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their partisans, took English gold & passed over to the enemy in 1814 & 15, taking up once more arms against your country & betrayed him who had befriended you. And you allowed the foreigner, being held on the throne by their bayonets & restored to your feudal privileges, to camp in France, despoil Paris of its riches & treasures, while you shot the brave Republicans or left them to starve. Would you not like to do with those that disagree with you, as la Maintenon & her Jesuit allies did when they exiled the Huguenots, sending them to found new industries & enrich foreign countries...
...children, and the Saloon as a burly ogre digging graves for mankind, pointing with pride to poorhouses and asylums, barring the path of Progress to honest Government and Universal Prosperity (see cut). Methodism was again aligned on the side of the poor man against the privileged rich who would despoil...
...divine inspiration. Bright eyes flashing earnestly behind his spectacles, he declared: "It was the outgrowth of man's own social experience. It sprang out of his own soul, and no outworn theological doctrine of inspiration, no conception of a spotlight of Divine Providence shining exclusively on Palestine, shall despoil man of this crowning glory of his life on earth, the discovery of Character...