Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have rung the bell again with the article in your Aug. 15 issue on the Chinese situation as handled in the State Department's white paper. It is clearly written and easily understood. It gives the American public a good idea of the mess China is in, and of our foreign policy, past and present, with the Chiang Kai-shek government...
...This is a good marriage. I love my wife and I am confident she loves me...She loves me in bed, and she never shows the slightest interest in any other men..." Four years later, Grace Tate made love to the son of a local Irish politician in the back seat of her car. When people found out, as people will, the Tate marriage was ruined and so was Grace's life...
Greenbacks & Compounds. In 1878, Dan, who had something of his mother's radicalism in him, ran for the Massachusetts legislature as candidate of the Greenback and Workingmen's Parties. When he spoke at a rally there were cheers for "the Pinkham Boys of Lynn," and, for good measure, another for the compound. Lydia wrote Dan's campaign literature, doggedly weaving puffs for her compound into Greenback propaganda. She urged votes for those who "fight against such an accursed financial system. Thousands of people who are paying for this mismanagement are today suffering from KIDNEY COMPLAINTS, DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION...
Much of her advice made good sense, particularly when she campaigned for elementary cleanliness ("Keep clean inside and out!") and "attacked the widespread prejudice against fresh air." She conducted a one-woman campaign for safety and sanitary regulations in industry at a time when factory girls had little protection. In such ways she became a force to be reckoned with in U.S. life. Long before she died (in 1883), her face and name had become part of the country's folklore and humor. One standard story...
...brilliant speech in the House of Commons, he exonerated Wheeler, elevated him to the rank of a momentary national hero, and incidentally maneuvered Gladstone into looking like a blackhearted oppressor of the poor. Disraeli, it appears, shared Novelist Bonnet's notion that Wheeler was chiefly a pretty good little symbol of the 1876 "lower classes"-grimy but devoted to the Queen...