Word: documents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preamble of a well known document once affirmed that man was entitled to 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' That was a new idea. After a while it became pretty widely accepted. But an examination of a few cross sections of our twentieth century tends to the conclusion that our famous preamble should be changed to 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of business...
Chamberlain. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, sprucely attired, monocle firmly fixed in his right eye, rose to read a document wherein was written the voice of Great Britain and the British Dominions beyond the seas (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa). The voice passed sentence of death on the Protocol for the following reasons...
...luncheon; and M. Briand had three hours in which to prepare his reply and to obtain a confirmatory statement from his Government in Paris. When the Council reassembled, it was obvious that the impression made by Mr. Chamberlain's well-reasoned reading of his Government's document was gloomy; as M. Briand subsequently put it: "I had the impression of being in blackness, in a tunnel where there was no light." Rising, however, in a later session, M. Priand, seven times Premier of France, vigorously assailed the British Government's contentions. He started...
...document read to us is marked by a high serenity and gentle philosophy which I hesitate to affront. I have tasted this philosophy and appreciated its nobility and I wonder if my philosophy is fit to face...
Henry Seidel Canby - "By no means the moral document. ... It is a 'hardboiled' story of a 'hardboiled' youth, whose tough idealism is a thousand miles and a century away from the transcendental philosophy of Emerson's home'." 'Goodbye, proud world, I'm going home...