Word: happens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insofar as the Monroe Doctrine refers to Brazil, the Argentine, Chile and Peru, Canada would probably stand aside. It is the future of the West Indies that concerns her. If it should ever happen that any of the islands now owned by other European nations should become salable, the Canadian might find his own interest leading him to urge Britain to purchase it, and he might be unwilling to admit that the Monroe Doctrine should be invoked to prevent the acquisition...
...story. The treatment sometimes slights the intensely, human and physical aspects of this story. But the lovers are very real people trying to make a hard reality out of the limp texture of their lives. They struggle toward this reality against a violent background of bitterly lively incident. Things happen! There is no pale aesthetic modernism in this attack. In fact, I know of no more vigorous satire on art and art thinking than the scene in a Greenwich Village backyard where poets, press agents, and actresses talk their way to success among cocktails and tea. This man and woman...
...Connor's plan is nebulous. What would happen to U. S. crews on U. S. ships not bought from the Shipping Board? In the case of a mixed crew, how conciliate the non-bonused? What an enormous bookkeeping expense...
...visible giant bee with a tail like a scorpion, of the first airplane those cannibals had ever seen. Down from heaven fell red parachutes at their feet -bales of beads, knives, gewgaws. "Glug," mused the cannibals, "glug, glug." The chances were that the next big bee that might happen along would be well received, even if he alighted...
...social; the desires for power and responsibility, for case and pleasure, for self-expression, for security, for adventure, for popularity. Economics follows up in detail the consequences of men's desire for wealth. Philosophy traces the results of our desire to know ultimate truth. Biology tells us what will happen, if we yield to our urge to understand living matter. So it is with each great branch of study. Each acquaints us with the results of human desire in a particular field. Social ethics compares all these desires and traces their results so far as is necessary...