Word: discordances
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Labels. "We may leave our Republican opponents such terms as conservative and radical, progressive and reactionary, regular and insurgent, to describe or explain the bitter discord that divides their ranks...
...Seiyuhonto Party and the Seiyukai Party were formerly united under the latter name. The death of Takashi Kara, who fell by the hand of an assassin in 1921, deprived the Seiyukai (Constitutional Society) of its leader, and the Party eventually split owing to internal discord, one part taking the name of Seiyuhonto, meaning "original Constitutional Party...
...again in a seemingly endless succession of climaxes. Then came the swift, breathless scherzo (musical jest) ; then the long-drawn-out, meditative Slow Movement; finally, after fragments of what had gone before, the rich baritone voice of Mr. Royal Dadmun, chanted: "O friends, no more such sound of discord. Let us sing a strain more cheerful, now flowing, a strai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ain of gladness...
Either there will be discord, possibly developing into civil war between Stalin and Trotsky, or matters will continue much as if Lenin had not died? such is the trend of opinion...
...world were inspired as never before with a consciousness of international brotherhood and an enthusiasm for universal peace based upon universal justice; personal enmity and political enmity raised their standards in this country and, with the clarion voice of selfishness; summoned to their ranks the armies of discord and defeat. Then the patriotism of a nation united by a great purpose became the party spirit of civil strife. Then the vision of America that had inspired the world became an infectious blindness to hide the vision. Then the courage that led became the fear that would not even follow...