Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study of origins, however, will not cure the evil; it must be met by stricter classification of schools into technical and cultural, and by increased financial support. The abject resignation of Dr. Kallen and others will accomplish nothing...
...attired, leap from his car and scale a Fifth Avenue traffic tower to find stop it's mystic clue. Or Mrs. Bourgeoise may have her life utterly wrecked by picking up an odd piece of paper on which is written. "Mayor Hylan will give you the root of all evil. Follow the Green Line." Or behold the devastation wrought in countless lives by a joyous debutante Pippa, as she acorns New York, singing on the great day of her life...
...that since the dawn of human history, the path of success for a writer or artist has been through the glorification of the ruling classes, and through teaching their subjects and slaves to stand in awe of them. With magisterial rod in hand, Mr. Sinclair proceeds to classify as evil all those writers who consciously or unconsciously voice the propaganda of the ruling classes, or who write without a moral purpose...
...variety of answers that were obtained, the test compares very favorably with one of a similar nature which was recently given at Boston University. The word "demagogue" was there defined as "an inevitable circumstance", "a form of government controlled by evil circumstance," "a god worshipped by African tribes," and "the nickname of the Republican party." The population of France was cautiously estimated by some to be about 18,000 while other more generous individuals put the figure at 1,000,000,000 people...
...refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, there is none greater in this house than I, neither hath my master kept back anything from me but tea, because tea is the luxury of the English, and Zagloul Pasha hath forbidden the Egyptians to fall into the evil ways of the idle-worshippers. How then can I do this great wickedness...