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...Causes. Religion's decline after the 1870s helped increase man's natural feeling of insecurity, and is thus a cause as well as a symptom, Dr. Halliday believes. Western society also suffered from changes in child-rearing, he thinks. Dr. Halliday looks skeptically at the flush toilet, and deplores its leading to too-early toilet training, hence frustration. The decline in breast-feeding and the general use of baby carriages, he thinks, robbed children of needed, reassuring contact with their mothers. Many changes were good physiologically, but bad psychologically...
...difficult to find words to accurately describe my thoughts relative to the article concerning the wedding of our well-beloved Elizabeth. As a fourth-generation Canadian, and, I hope and pray, a good British subject, I feel a hot flush of disgust for your article...
That left just one more question: would Argentina herself ratify the treaty? After all, Perón was no longer so flush with funds. González , flashing his most confident smile, was not afraid of that either. Perón, he said, would keep his bargain...
...though the new ideas had been violently avowed, and the hallmark of their advocates was a fanaticism unknown since the first flush of Islam, wherever the fanatics were brought to trial, almost without exception they failed to defend their beliefs...
More reckless spirits favor a type of poker known as "the fiery cross." No hand here comes cheaper than a flush, which generally gets flushed where it belongs. With practically every card in the deck wild, so are the players, who also profess proficiency in the double cut and the under-arm shift...