Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receive his just dues. And I am in hopes Mr. Lodge repented his harsh views before he was called to meet his God. For otherwise I fear that his chances of happiness will be very slim. For our Saviour condemns every strife, malice, backbiting, selfishness and all manner of evil. And our late President was as free from those vices as mortal man could be. . . I know that his crown will be filled with stars . . . His every thought was for his country and people and what did America give him in return for all his self sacrifice? She turned...
...beyond the question as to what we think about the liquor traffic or about Prohibition. We are face to face with the problem as to whether, when, through the proper use of all the legislative processes known to our republic, we have achieved a signal victory over a great evil, we are to be deterred from the enjoyment of that victory by an unscrupulous minority whose one slogan is 'You can't enforce that...
...explorer tous les soirs." Though ignorant of French he would not deign to turn to page 31; no, and what's more he would put the magazine where his wife could not get at it. Had he bothered to read the translation, he would have discovered that the evil witticism was as follows...
...lively debate followed in which Dickens' immortal characters were discussed with the mud slinging of a political campaign. One would have thought that Steerforth was even then continuing his evil ways and that Barkis still pursued his trade of carrier. It is a tribute to the influence of the better element of the town that Mr. Salmon was at last convinced of Barkis rectitude and sobriety...
...This evil is magnified in a large college. Scholastic achievement is in its nature a quiet and cloistered honor. It may penetrate as far as intimate friends but such a circle is of necessity a small fraction of the enrolment...