Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brooks House as the center of the social service and charitable week of the University fulfills a decided need, especially under existing conditions, conditions which hunger and ignorance are still to a large extent problems of private philanthropy. But whether the present system of social service is the best conceivable and practicable, is not clear to everyone. There would seem to be much to be said, for example, in favor of a summer camp rather than the weekly-visit type of social service. Certainly, with a few significant exceptions, undergraduates lose interest in social service after their Freshman year. Perhaps...
Died. Lady Constance Lytton, 54, militant suffragist and daughter of the first Earl of Lytton at London. She was imprisoned four times for her militant activities, twice went on a hunger strike, was forcibly...
...think it is a " topping excursion "; the Yanks are doing " durned fine "; the Italians " facendo una festa"; the Japs and the Chinks, with their oriental stoicism, say nothing. Then a charge of tragedy is shot into the practical joke when it is announced that the captives are dying of hunger or exposure. On the whole, it seems that the captive foreigners are not likely to be badly treated now that the bandits have come to an agreement with the Government...
...Despard, sister of Field Marshal Earl French, had her bed carried outside the Kilmainham Prison, stating that she would remain in it on hunger strike until three women prisoners, also on hunger strike, are liberated...
...enlightened and intelligent statesmanship. France's action has been denounced in Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Holland, as well as by the International Trade Union Congress, the most powerful labor organization in the world. Sir Phillip Gibbs says: 'France has produced undying hatred in Germany, as well as despair, hunger, and disease, and has raised against herself the moral disapproval of every man and women in the world who stands for fair play rather than brutality, for European civilization rather than French militarism, and for the humble working men and women with their hungry children, whether they be German, French, Russian...