Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that his "Areopagitica" had won the fight against censorship, Milton will undoubtedly turn uneasily in his grave at all this fire and brimstone. He might sensibly suggest that a discussion of the matter be relegated to Oxford, "the home of lost causes. And his proposal would undoubtedly find a host of supporters when it became generally known that a book could be suppressed under this bill for "a description of a man eating corn beef and cabbage with his fingers...
...answer to a host of adverse criticism which appeared in the press of France, Spain and Italy, the Admiralty let it be known that, in sending the Fleet to the Mediterranean, it was only returning to the historic policy, temporarily abandoned 15 years ago, of using that sea as a base...
...Governor of Massachusetts showed little more than that he was a conscientious executive. Mr. Johnson, elected Governor of California by his own efforts with the aid of only one newspaper, revested in the people the control of the state government from the Southern Pacific Railroad and forced a host of humanitarian laws through the legislature that lifted the state at once to a high place among our most progressive states. As a campaigner Mr. Johnson compared well with the late Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Coolidge, on the other hand, was lost sight of even beside the late Mr. Harding...
...Hindus go by the name of Hinduism. Narrow minded persons have for the last 100 years been painting Hinduism in the most hideous possible colors. They have shown through pulpits and press their satisfaction that Hindu religious doctrines are mythological accounts of the passionate escapades and cruelties of a host of imaginary gods and goddesses. However, the East has maintained her philosophic calm at such a procedure, knowing full well that this is one way of getting public recognition and the only one known to the West: Casting slurs upon other peoples' institutions in order that...
...adoration. Readers of the Nietzsche-Wagner correspondence will recall that the philosopher, for a long time the devoted friend of Wagner, broke away from his idol in large part because he was repelled by the adulation and the molasses of flattery that Wagner accepted and enjoyed from the host of sentimentalists at Baireuth...