Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which are curious mixtures of the old fashioned and the modern. Thus Angle, who of all the children is probably the most interesting and the most human, finds herself in a position which might have been transferred wholly from some cheap melodrama, but she conducts herself as regards her dilemma with the primitiveness of a Sherwood Anderson creation, not only challenging the world but challenging it with a barbaric splendor. Likewise with the tone of the entire book; its actual period is the nineties of the last century but its spirt and menner are those of the most militant modernists...
Protestants, viewing these points of variance with alarm, wonder how Governor Smith will grasp the horns of the dilemma. New York Democrats are confident; they have seen him discharge the public trusts for 25 years...
...practice, there has been no apparent conflict between his faith and his patriotism. And, broad- minded Catholics argue, the dilemma is more imagined than real, the conflicts between Church and State law more legalistic than actual. There is a difference between being Catholic in faith and Papal in policy...
...Concerning his wedding night and his wife's lapdog, he said: "I had to choose between sleeping beside the beast or not sleeping with my wife. A terrible dilemma, but I had to take it or leave it. I resigned myself. The dog was less accommodating. I have the marks on my leg to show what he thought about the matter...
...York World, ever tinged with yellow outside and intellectual blue-blood within, experienced the acute pain of a wolf trapped by the foot. It sought relief from its dilemma in an agonized editorial admitting that it was staggered by "a deep-rooted disorder in modern civilization." The public interest in the Brownings, it thought, was "no superficial blemish" but a phenomenon of vicarious sensual indulgence to which the nearest analogies were the Roman circus and the Spanish bullring. Yet "frank animalism" was lacking. "The combination between the courts and the tabloids," raged the World, "has produced a situation for which...