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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much the some problem, it is true con-confronted Cavour and Bismarck, but it is in the difference of treatment, and particularly in the history of the two nations in the years immediately after their unification that the chief interest lies. "Italy's appetite", said Bismarck, "had grown before its teeth." He saw to it that Germany grew teeth first...
...Sunday. . . . I have lots of calls for malt and other articles used in making home-brew . . . do not handle them. . . . I'd like to see sharper teeth put into the [prohibition] law . . . only $1,100 is still owed on the $4,000 building . . . membership of my church has grown in three years from 18 to 125 . . . religion and business...
...Thomas Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are grown-ups now. Oddly enough, they had been simultaneously moved to write about their boyhoods. Neither improves on Mark Twain's version, but autobiography is always edifying...
...dark and awful things" he saw in barns, woods and alleys. It is not for him to live within himself. He must paint a dismal background against which the present will seem bright. So that he can say: "Those boys of a drab and dirty day, grown mature, have performed a miracle . . . modern civilization ... a great agricultural empire ... a rich industrial commonwealth . . . out of the bottomless cornucopia of Providence," etc., etc. He accuses men his age of overmuch pride in their material achievements and sentimentality over their oldtime virtues. But then he turns around to ballyhoo Progress harder than anyone...
...exaggeration which show, even when he discusses national politics or literature, that he is still a small-town man. But he stands for the very best national things: the Y. M. C. A., the Rotarians, Opportunity, the Boy Scouts and the Kingdom of Heaven. Tom Sawyer's grown-up name is William Allen White...