Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...across the Atlantic they seem to understand our policy very well, and to find it remarkably consistent. "The London Times" finds in the Nicaraguan affair nothing to get much excited about. The United States is merely containing a program of unofficial annexation of the countries around the Caribean, which it is has followed for twenty years past. It is in the process of establishing a mandate over Nicaragua just as England, for instance, put Egypt under the thumb of the Colonial Office (the Times did not express itself just this way). London merely regards the unfortunate verbal gymnastics...
...very great satisfaction," Professor Carver said, "to find a man who does not think in a fog. We really need some strict enforcement of penalties against, criminals and it is only a small cult of half baked intellectuals, among them Clarence Darrow, that has begun to wonder whether crime may not be, after all, a misunderstood form of virtue, that has interfere. Such men, to who any new movement is interesting and original, and a pernicious influence in the country an through their grasshopper like stridency have always given the impression that their numbers are much larger than they really...
...Several years ago", said Dr. Grenfell, 'I was staying in Cambridge only a short while and returning from a dance, was trying to find the club where I was spending the night. I thought that I had found the right house and, was stealthily entering a window so as not to awaken the people who were already in bed, when the lights suddenly went on and a nervous man with a revolver ordered me to 'Put them...
...rather take a swim than a smoke. I want all young people to find the joy I do in reading the Bible. . . . Why-I get more kick out of reading ECCLESIASTES than in having a date...
Honeymooning is a rowdyish jamboree, in which only the naive may find a modicum of unsophisticated amusement. The bridegroom plays dead on his wedding night, while the bride repents the cruelty that supposedly made him commit suicide and the in-laws communicate through spiritualistic medium with his table-rapping soul. Every now and then, he skips out of the coffin to pound someone on the head, then jumps back in again. No one catches him. Antics drive the farce out of the ridiculous into the absurd. The odd things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes...