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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELIEVES BUSINESS DEPRESSION WILL BE EXTENDED | 4/9/1921 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By D. W. B., | Title: A NOVEL OF THE NEW SUPREMACY OF YOUTH | 3/20/1920 | See Source »

Tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock Phillips Brooks House will fling wide its doors for the eighth annual "open house" entertainment on Thanksgiving. This celebration is for the benefit of all those members of the University who will be in Cambridge tomorrow. The first part of the entertainment, which will last from 6 until 10 o'clock, is provided by songs, music, and sleight-of hand tricks, before the open fire. Following this there will be refreshments of cider, apples, candy, and doughnuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE HOST | 11/26/1919 | See Source »

...number. The plot is good and moves along well, but the style is not workmanlike. The piece is too long for its substance; it impresses one as being "padded," as though the writer had incorporated unimportant incidents merely to please his fancy or give his descriptive powers a fling. The ending is a trifle unintelligible, being either so obvious as to utterly shake the foundation of the plot and the action, or so enigmatical as to totally mystify. However, to the question: does the story hold the interest throughout? The answer must be in the affirmative, and that, after...

Author: By Gerald COURTNEY ., | Title: Advocate Lean But Interesting | 1/24/1917 | See Source »

...sufficient calibre, but who is available, who possesses the proper affiliations and reputation to reconcile Republicans and Progressives and to carry some of the large "doubtful" states. Republicans and Progressives are interested in their political prestige for the next four years. And D mocra 's may have their fling tonight at all the "favorite sons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G. O. P.--S. O. S. | 1/6/1916 | See Source »

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