Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utter disintegration of finance, industry, commerce,, education, agriculture. He brings out, among other things, the fact that Russia was the largest wheat exporting country in the world before the War, and conjures the nations of Europe to help Russia in the interests of European rehabilitation and to forget, their political prejudices. In his fairness the author has damned! the Soviet regime about as effectually as any biased person could wish. From beginning to end, the book is one long tale of the economic ruin to which the Moscow Marxists have reduced Russia. For what purpose? Are the peasants, who form...
...little interest in the future as it has in the past: the audiences that will turn out to listen to Mr. Debs or Mr. Nearing will be as curious and as immune to permanent radical influence as the crowd that greeted "Red" Doran in 1921. Mr. Lamont seems to forget that this is not a girls' school; that there is here no great body of persons who are emotionally starved and lacking in attachment to material interests; that there are so many outlets for excess energy and emotion in Cambridge and vicinity that the real interest in pacifism and socialism...
...Will Not Soon Forget John, Julia, Lily, Irene...
...founded. There is no person created by Mr. Bromfield that is not poignantly individual, and even peculiar. The more his characters assert themselves and the older they grow, the more they intensify themselves. You have never seen John, Julia, Lily or Irene Shane before, but you will not soon forget them. They are alluring because they are alive. For instance, the development of Irene, from an innocent, sensitive child to the inhuman old maid, is surely one of the devilish tricks of life...
...final House debate on the Johnson measure was enlivened by undignified antics. Representative James A. Gallivan, Democrat of Massachusetts, denounced the Ku Klux influence back of the measure. Said he: "You seem to forget that only the other day your ancestors were alien, the sons of England, and France, Ireland and Scotland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and other lands. Wherever the immigrant has gone schools have sprung up, industries have flourished, trade has increased, wealth has multiplied, prosperity has bloomed and patriotism, peace, law, order, intelligence and happiness follow in his footsteps...