Word: jude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imperial pride and anti-Gladstonianism of Disraeli, who promptly told Bismarck, "No!" Thus, despite Gladstonian moralizing, Disraeli went to Berlin in 1878, dictated a Treaty which left Turkey a little territory and Britain all the glory. Glorious indeed was the day when Bismarck summarized Europe by saying: "Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann...
...though bent against a wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie fire drives Caleb to his beloved's bosom-the bottomless muskeg...