Word: existed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collaboration and thanks to the yielding now of one side and now of the other sprang a new spirit of confidence and all that that made possible. Today the Cabinet of Sacred Union is more united than ever. We have only one regret-that the same union does not exist in the corridors of the Chamber. We will continue to govern with whatever majority follows us. We desire it to be as large as possible, but we shall be faithful to those who are faithful to us. We will exclude none but those who exclude themselves." Swayed by the bold...
...talking about and you are what decent Southern people call "nigger lovers." The Blackmans were bad niggers, bullies, bootleggers, makers of moonshine and thieves. Last year their father shot out the eyes of a little white boy. We live in harmony with our good niggers-strange ties of affection exist between the white gentry and the darkies. There had not been a lynching in Rapides Parish in twenty-five years, yet you call this "the customary thing." Be ashamed of your slander...
Arthur Wellesley Peel (1884-95), youngest son of the great Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel. Naughtiest was Charles Shaw Lefevre (1841-57) who delighted to cite precedents which did not exist, and would solemnly intone, according to ritual, that his most outrageous decisions were justified by "the well known practice of the House...
...party further pledges that it will not create, or permit to be created, any deficit which shall exist at the close of the campaign...
...Individualism at its best can be evidence of highly developed democracy; but in Harvard individualism there is little democratic feeling. By democratic feeling I do not mean glad-handing collegiatism and sartorial standardization. Few lament the lack of those things. And it must be admitted that individualism could not exist without a certain amount of tolerance. But for all that we have our intellectual snobs, and our athletic snobs, and our social snobs, and our anti-social snobs, and there is little democracy in us. We pursue our own interests whole-heartedly and unhampered, but we are apt to look...