Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evils arising out of our unjust economic conditions, such as business depressions, hard times, unemployment, poverty and the fear of poverty, bad housing conditions and the crime, vice and disease due to these conditions, are the result of the private ownership of the earth and the appropriation of its products...
...doctrine of strength, of beauty, of discipline, of responsibility, of everything that is in opposition to all those manifestations which constitute the political life of the greater part of the world, Fascism has become a beacon of light shining in Rome, and toward which all people of the earth look, especially those who have suffered the ills we have suffered. Fascism never turns back, and I am sure that if tomorrow I should sound an alarm the whole of Italy would rally to our banners...
...crown one's mortification, our friends the English look us over and volunteer the information that Americans are a lawless lot. Lawless, forsooth Americans are the most law-ridden, law-encumbered people on the earth. With frenzied politicians catering first to the prejudices of one group having the natural breadth and average intelligence of a CroMagnon man and again to the hysteria of some other group with somewhat the same qualifications, a maze of laws has been constructed which is impossible to respect if it is understood and still more impossible to obey if it is not understood. To make...
...apparently like "the wondrous horse of brass" it needed but the turning of some hidden key to release his congealed wings and send him ramping "into the uttermost parts of the earth." And now, like Oden's ravens he brings back tidings, not from all corners of the globe perhaps, but far more remarkable for a Cambridge foaled beast, from twelve states outside of New England! And the genius, his flowing robes girl up about his loins, his wreath becomingly arranged, his lyre attuned to the typewriter--raises the ante. The prize for the best word to describe...
...aerial. Presumably the ship was struck before the completion of the maneuver. With its huge metal structure, a rigid dirigible is like a giant lightning rod furnishing the easiest and most attractive path for any electrical disturbance. Unlike the lightning rod, it cannot lead the charge safely to mother earth...