Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moral is obvious. If we are to become a country of picture-lovers our museums must be gradually emptied. Let the Metropolitan in New York sell The Old Lady Paring Her Nails for $1,000,000, and all the city will flock to wave her bon voyage. Or let our own Fogg Museum close out stock, beginning with one of the Venetian masters. The Economics Department, meeting in Holden Chapel, would yield the New Lecture Hall to the votaries of the Arts...
...Armaments Conference has brought to Washington a notable assemblage of statesmen. In their wake, like a flock of gulls behind an ocean steamer, follows a motley array of attaches, unofficial representatives and newspaper correspondents. From this last group most of our impressions of the Conference must come, and on them to a great extent depends its favorable reception by the people of the countries involved. It it especially desirable, then, that their reports should be free from personal prejudice...
Then there bursts into the village the radiant Guila, sister-in-law of Professor Spinosi, a fascinating woman whose metropolitan dress and manners shock the slumbering inhabitants into buzzing activity. All the men, young and old, flock around her, and inhale new life from her glowing personality and energetic example. Deftly she deals telling blows at the smug complacency of the Academy savants and as a final coup d'etat arranges the marriage of Marcella to Enrico...
...Chicago; to court Johnson's following; to kotow to Gompers or Plumb; to devise planks to win over this form of discontent or that form of disgruntlement. Little but disappointment could result from such a policy. The professional exploiters of "unrest" are very apt to go off and flock by themselves this year, in any event. Whether they go or stay, the Democratic party ought to have the wisdom and firmness not to allow itself to be outdone by the Republicans in interpreting the overmastering desire of the great masses of the people. This is to rebuild the fabric...
...that any of the "Consolidateds" or "Topsy-Turvys" with which he plays are actually worth anything--he is much too wise for that. He knows that behind the game there stands the sinister figure of the wolf, but, believe him, this little lamb is not going to follow the flock. Wonderful little "Man of Destiny...