Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Echoes. Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts was flooded with telegrams and petitions urging a pardon for Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti, or at least an impartial investigation of their case. Twenty-two members of the British Parliament demanded immediate freedom for them. Breadmakers and taxi-drivers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and laborers in many another land went on protest strikes. Heavy guards were posted at the U. S. Department of State and at Judge Thayer's home. . . . And, meanwhile, the fish peddler and the shoemaker sat in jail, fumbling with martyrdom. They have two hopes: a technicality leading...
Many an upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...
Many whose hearts were not particularly touched by Ishbel Macdonald's praiseworthy interest in George Washington, prepared to greet her father as one of the few Great Men of today. Not the least of his achievements was to build up the potent British Labor party out of thousands of unionized workers whom he taught to realize that what they could not win by strikes and violence they might gain in the halls of Parliament...
...King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and Emperor of India as dutifully as ever did Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Wellington, or Lord North. It probably made Soviet ministers throw bombs, clench their teeth, bristle their whiskers and evince other characteristically Russian signs of displeasure. It reassured conservative England; at least radical viewpoints did not interfere with good taste...
...with tiny irritating shafts and barbs have always been a persecuted brotherhood. When jesters were really in fashion, the indignities were such uncomfortably tangible things as straw-beds, and a monkey or two to share the couch. In latter days, Puritans, police and preachers contrive to make life at least exciting for the Merry Andrews, and, incidentally, to provide further food for fun. But not until now, so far as we can tell, has merriment and its disciples been subjected to the dissecting, knife analysis of the statistician...