Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, you say, did they revolt? Because they were practically bribed to revolt. Certain of the great western powers, appealing to the religious and nationalistic sentiments of the people, offered to the Armenians the flower of Liberty, Independence, and certain Turkish territories. They revolted, Practically the same offer was made to the people of Mesopotamia--what have they now? Almost 100,000 British in their country. We pity them. The same thing happened to the Syrians. Instead of the promised liberty and so forth, they have a host of Frenchmen. It is Lloyd George's imperialistic policies that are responsible...
...George Bernard Shaw, famed sophisticate, from Grigori Zinoviev, Chief of the Third Internationale, went an answer to the former's sneering criticism of the Bolshevik regime. Said M. Zinoviev: "Shaw, flower of the petty bourgeoisie, considers himself above Karl Marx. But if we compare both, Shaw appears as a scarcely visible dust speck...
...great theatre was assembled all the grandeur that is Rome. There sat the Queen Mother Margherita and, near by, stalled or boxed, silked or uniformed, the flower of Roman aristocracy. The assemblage lacked, it is true, the presence of Benito Mussolini, but he sent a message voicing his regret at being unable to leave the Chamber of Deputies...
...Flower of the petty bourgeoise...
...main reasons why the American university system is not going the right way to produce men of genius in art and philosophy, pure science and literature, is because diversity of character is not encouraged but suppressed; for genius is the flower of exceptional diversity. Let me explain how this suppression is brought about...