Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Answer either (a) or (b) as your instructor directs. (a) Compare the point of view of Bacon with that of Abraham Adams on one of the following subjects: marriage, travel, friendship, (b) Complete Bacon's thought in each of the following sentences: "And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from....men." "Wives are young men's...for middle...
...agree, made a scene when he finally refused her. Amiel preferred women's society to their warmth. For a long time he toyed with the idea of marriage. But it was actually repulsive to him. He could never bring himself to the point. He had several intimate friendships with women, and conducted them all peaceably together, on however platonic a plane. This took considerable tact, was often an emotional strain. "Philine" he finally calmed back into friendship...
...order "exists for charitable work and friendship," has 6,500 branches in the U. S. (greatest number of members in Ohio), Canada, Hawaii and the Philippines, is open to "all whites over 18 who believe in a Supreme Being." There are also over 175,000 Pythian sisters (female blood relatives of members). Initiation fee: from $15 (rural districts) to $25 (in Manhattan...
...vain word, and your great Machiavelli said that unarmed prophets perish!'' He concluded with these ringing words : ''Fascist Italy . . . cannot be attacked without mortal risk. Fascist Italy, fully armed, will give [he did not say to whom, meant France] her simple alternative of precious friendship or harshest hostility. . . . "Florentines! Have I changed in these eight years? Do you see any decrease in my natural pugnacity?" 'Like the lashing of the sea the roar of 100,000 voices rose from Fascist militia men packed and jammed into the great square before the Palazzo Vecchio...
...when he walked free from the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Eugene Victor Debs was a name to anger conservative businessmen throughout the land, to hearten the consciously downtrodden. Behind the name was a tall lanky blue-eyed man, rapidly going bald, with a genius for friendship, a heart emotionally soft, a darting forefinger, a tongue afire with vituperation. Five times was he a candidate for President of the U. S. His whole life was a steady passionate movement to the left along the sliding scale of Radicalism, from conservative unionism, through Bryan Democracy, Populism, Social Democracy to revolutionary Socialism...