Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people of Kansas a duty to stick by my guns in the State." What Is Herbert Hoover? In the Republican equation for 1936, Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least one passion, that of anger. Ever since he left the White House two years and seven months ago, he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges: against the personality...
...overwrought widower stopped crying long enough to lift his bandaged left hand, quaver: "My friends, I want to thank you for the sympathy you have shown for us and for all you have done for us. I hope the blood which my wife shed will do something to help human rights and justice." Then the long funeral procession wound up the road to a Roman Catholic cemetery where Sophie Crempa was buried. . . . New Jersey's Governor Hoffman stepped in last week to demand quick action in the Crempa case. The county prosecutor promised a thoroughgoing investigation by a grand...
...years was Secretary General of the League of Nations, the cynicism of Sir Eric in converse with fellow diplomats at Rome last week was piquant to those who had known him only at Geneva. No man could say that "the deal" would be consummated, for all human endeavor is fallible, and with the heaviest naval concentration since Jutland jamming the Mediterranean this week, the fate of Europe was clearly at the mercy of an incident...
...rives on to the inevitable tragedy. Hanna realizes that he can exist only for himself that he cannot make the compromise with his inner self which marriage necessitates. This problem is worked out with skill and directness but in so doing Mr. Barry frequently forgets that his characters are human and cannot be shunted about like chess-men. There is an abstract mechanical quality to the play, an over emphasis of problem and serious disregard of essential human complexities. Few human beings can be resolved into one dominant characteristic and this is what happens to the people of "Bright Star...
...glamour of Seven Pillars of Wisdom springs from the fact that most of the actions undertaken, audacious examples of individual daring such as raids into enemy country, are described with a light and mocking air, as if they were little more than schoolboy pranks. Lawrence evidently treasured all human life except his own. He was constantly testing his personal courage. When he was captured on a spying venture, indecently approached by his captor, tortured and beaten, he was gratified that even in his extreme pain he had remembered to cry out in Arabic...