Word: disillusional
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THE ANGEL OF THE ASSASSINATION? Joseph Shearing?Smith & Haas ($2.75). The French Revolution had already passed through its stages of exaltation, flowery speeches and grandiose proposals, when in the hot summer of 1793, Charlotte de Corday sat in a dim house in Caen, embroidering on a piece of silk the...
Disillusion was slow but sure. Priest Coughlin is bitter in his hatred of the Federal Reserve System and its banker-managers. By last March he was calling the New Deal a flat failure largely because "President Roosevelt has compromised with the money changers." His savage attack in Cleveland last week...
"I was tired of leading the life of a young man of easy money. But I suffered a great shock. I was disappointed to learn the contemptible character of the men who were at work with me. Instead of idealists, I found men who thought of nothing but of what...
The action of France in clinging to this last sepulchre of international action is most significant today when in Europe disillusion stalks armed with bayonets, and faith in anything except one's strong right arm marks a nation as a whimsical idealist. France's fortitude, if carried to its ultimate...
Uan Koé might as well have come from Mars as from his native Samoa. Like any Martian visitor he landed in San Francisco, intelligent, stiltedly educated, highly moral. But he had little money and he did not know the customs of the country. He was having a fine time...