Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down slipped the garter until it tumbled before the knowing eyes of a pack of smirking courtiers. But Edward III, with instant chivalry, stooped, retrieved the ribbon, tied it just below his own royal knee, and exclaimed to the Courtiers in immortal reproof: "Honi soit qui mal y pense!" (Evil be to him who evil thinks...
This was accomplished and vigorously, too, by presenting the case of a husband whose wife is about to deceive him. The husband prisons his wife and banishes her paramour, so that his son's name may never be smirched by her evil doings. The son, when he grows to lusty manhood, follows his father's footsteps into a similar domestic snare; he, too, when his mother tells him the story of her extra-marital spasm, sends away the lover and insists on honor for his son's sake. His wife refuses to adopt this course...
Water v. Wine. Concerning the 18th Amendment Dr. William James Mayo of Rochester, Minn., said: "It is assumed that the drinking of spirituous and fermented liquors is due to an evil inborn longing to be stamped out only by the exercise of individual self-control. Is this true...
...Laborite Daily Herald, enthusiastic at these words, headlined across an entire page: "Henry Ford on the Evil of Low Wages-Unemployment in England Due to Low Wages...
Although men have, until comparatively recent times, persistently sought to find some mystical significance in numbers their efforts have met with but little success. The attempt to prove that qualities of good and evil are inherent in the number 7 and the number 13 respectively, has been virtually abandoned; human ingenuity has turned rather to a study of numbers in their relation to each other. While the mystic has discovered that numbers in themselves signify nothing, the mathematician has found that numbers in series or in combinations may mean a great deal...