Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jackson sought social justice and fought for human rights in his many battles to protect the people against autocratic or oligarchic aggression...
...tramp becomes bank president and is threatened with exposure and has to live it down to make everything end happily. The Paramount News was received with anti-administration cheering while the Voice of Experience seems to remain unappreciated by this college audience despite the obvious sincerity of his human interest story. His dramatic showmanship seems to mar all his shorts. It is, altogether, a good examination period bill...
...remember his Broadway success, now as dead as David Garrick, nor his poetry, once considered a minor glory of the western world. These letters of Moody's to Mrs. Harriet Converse Brainard, the platonic friend whom he married a year before his early death, reincarnate the likable human figure of a literary man who in a third-rate age might have ranked first...
Five years ago Pearl Sydenstricker Buck convinced U. S. readers that there was good earth in China, and that its tillers were sympathetic human beings not unlike themselves. Her masterly translation of another classic truth {All Men Are Brothers; TIME, Oct. 16, 1933) fell on somewhat deafer ears. Last week she attempted an even more difficult reconciliation: exile and patriotism, missions and motherhood. Author Buck wrote this book about a missionary's wife as if it were a novel, but readers soon guessed she was telling the thinly disguised story of her mother's life. Few readers...
Geometry is not class-conscious. The pons asinorum is free to all comers and even the eternal triangle's points are true for either hemisphere. On such a Euclidean axiom James Hanley posits his latest diatribe, in novel form, against the race that calls itself human but shows itself English. Readers who fear the proletarian author even when he is writing about love can safely pocket their qualms: Author Hanley complains of nothing more subversive than the fact that stokers, too, have hearts and flea-bitten wenches can make them bleed...