Word: fermentations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens in Indiana, 27,000 in California, 25,000 each in Texas and New York, 5,000 in Montana?300,000 all told in the nation?were seeking public office in next autumn's elections. Like 300,000 raisins they helped to make the U. S. political ferment seethe, burble, and spill over in dozens of different places...
...drug stores, by department stores, by grocery stores, by stationery stores, by restaurants, by hot-dog stands, by newsstands, by filling stations, even by blacksmith shops. For these retail outlets some 1,000 wholesale candy makers, of which hardly 400 are national, scrabble endlessly, hope their products will not ferment or go stale on the shelves, take them back if they...
...excellent foretaste, however, of the aspect that crisis will assume if it does come. . . . [The President and his advisers] handed the system back to the old rulers, with enough help so that they were able to carry on. . . ." The two necessary ingredients for Revolution, says Author Soule, are the ferment of ideas and the rise to power of a new class. In the U. S. both these ingredients are slowly in the making. To anxious readers who would like to know if the revolution will be violent when it comes. Analyzer Soule rejoins that revolutions in themselves are seldom violent...
...Government of direct responsibility for famine conditions, of attempting to belittle and conceal conditions. He implies that dislike of the Soviet system is widespread in Russia, says the Russian experiment "cannot be carried through to the end because it depends on hate. It presupposes a society in a perpetual ferment of hate, or of class war. . . . No whole society can hate long enough to destroy itself; and self-destruction is the only conceivable end of Bolshevism and of the class war." But even if the Soviet dictatorship were good Author Muggeridge would not like it. As one of his real...
...what I want but don't make it exactly like this.' That is a suggestion which I think is comparable to the way they used to sell grapejuice during Prohibition with accompanying instructions not to put any raisins in because if that were done the grapejuice would ferment. . . . "The character which was depicted combined in appearance the childish with the sophisticated - a round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button and framed in a somewhat careful coiffure, with a body of which the most noticeable characteristic is the most self-confident little bust imaginable...