Word: flings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...partisan politics must have its fling. The important foreign posts are the plums that politicians grow to feed campaign fund contributors; until some political Burbank produces a new variety they will continue to be eaten as soon as they are ripe. America's international relations cannot reach the plane attained by other nations, as long as our foreign representatives are subject to change without notice. And the appeal for a higher quality in our public servants will not be answered as long as they have so doubtful an incentive to service as now exists...
...patriotic appeal" that Trotsky finds so useful would be then discounted, and Lenine's regime would stand or fall only on its value as a government. Since international trade is incompatible with the communistic idea, the regime would undoubtedly fall, and then the Russian people would be able to fling aside Bolshevism and adopt a sane and settled form of government...
...youth. Though preserving among hundreds of his own type an individuality at once winning and intriguing, Robin is a capital example of that type of Englishlad who left the playing fields of Eton and Harrow, the clositered seclusion of Oxford, or the placide reaches of the Cam to fling his life, a care-free sacrifice, on the altar of England's glory...