Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puritan colonies tried to suppres time-honored holidays like Christmas an-Midsummer's Day. Thanksgiving was pretty good substitute for the former and the people insisted on making Harvard Commencement a substitute for the latter. By the early eighteenth century, Harvard Commencement had become a "riot" Every graduate came if he possibly could, and those who had no right of admission to the Meetinghouse (on the site of Lehman Hall) where the degrees were conferred came out to watch the procession and see the sights. Cambridge common was covered by tonts of huck-sters, cheap-jacks, Indian basket-sellers...
...Bliss. The show and the crowds would have pleased the Modern Museum's prime founder, Lizzie ("Lillie") P. Bliss, late, wealthy daughter of Drygoodsman Cornelius N. Bliss. Genial hostess of a teetotaling salon, Founder Bliss was one of the greatest art collectors produced by Manhattan society's latter-day Age of Innocence...
...immediate purposes of France and of most Frenchmen in France, that fact makes nonsense of all the questions about De Gaulle. Is he a democrat? A Fascist? A megalomania with an appetite for personal power, whatever the label? A natural born, latter-day First Consul-a Fourth Napoleon? Tough old Rightist Republicans like Louis Marin, newly arrived in London after a close call with the Gestapo, throw back their heads and roar when apprehensive Britons ask if France is ready to accept dictatorship (meaning De Gaulle's) after four years of Nazi rule...
...What happens this year in respect to our foreign policy," he said, "will determine our post-war policy completely. The nation at the present time in divided into the bitter camps of neo-isolationism and interventionism. The latter group is now the most potent group, comprising 75 percent to 80 percent of the people is all sections of the country...
Pious Paradox. Author Gayn devotes most of the latter part of Journey from the East to the new China and its new leaders. He believes that Chiang is the only man under whom China can achieve unity...