Word: insistent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voulez-vous? He refuses to let it be produced while he lives. . . . Ah! The most wonderful old man in France! . . .He said to me: 'I have had the most beautiful love affairs it ever befell any man to experience. That is why when I am in the country I insist that not even important telegrams be forwarded to me. Before I die I must have a little quiet to remember my happy youth...
...when smug, triumphant conservatism is more dominant in politics than it has been for a generation, it is not surprising to find a new type of liberalism being advocated by the New Republic. The liberalism of the future, the editors insist must be of the cautious, experimental type, a state of mind based not upon identification with a specific program, but upon the study of life and social processes. Militant liberalism rarely thrives unless it is given the impetus of hard times or a favorable shift in ordinary economic conditions. And the prosperous condition of industry in general has practically...
...live stock in that hogs particularly are likely to become infected from the cattle. In this way, tremendous economic injury is done to the live stock breeders of the state through the dissemination of tuberculosis from cattle. A number of American cities have shown that it is possible to insist on milk from tuberculin-tested herds, with the result that herds in their vicinity are relatively free from the disease, as compared with the mass infection of cattle in the Illinois Dis- trict...
...would save you time to read the Christmas Advocate rather than its review. You could glance through the magazine in a dozen minutes, and read it all in three quarters of an hour, and if you read the review I shall insist that you read the Advocate afterwards at least Mr. Dumaux's story. Truly a Christmas number, there is a thorough treatment of the holiday from the gently falling snow flakes sort of thing to the realistic modern. And there are also the usual number of varied essays, verses, reviews and editorials. A good number, but not distinguished...
...next Tuesday night, will read from Kipling, Milne, Leacock, and Thackery. The exact passages are not announced as yet, but will probably be in the spirit of the Christmas season. The acoustics of the Upstairs Dining Room are better than those of the main hall and the Professor will insist on the doors being locked at 8.30 o'clock sharply to prevent interruption...