Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rituals in U. S. life hit so hard, go so deep, are so unsparing and dramatic as the disbarring of a prominent lawyer. Disbarment is to the lawyer what being read out of meeting was to the New England villager. It is a judgment that a man who has made his name at courts of law is not fit to practice the law. Disbarment is not common: painful and shocking as is the impeachment of a judge, the disbarment of a prominent corporation lawyer is almost as exceptional...
...unprecedentedly thoughtful and humane pattern. Last week there were signs that the Nazi Government had begun to realize and fear the extent to which millions of Europeans are turning to the Allied formula of ending the war not in victory & defeat but by setting up a more-abundant-life European federation into which any German regime save the Nazis would be welcome. This amounts to inviting a revolution by the German people or a coup d'etat at Berlin, and suddenly at Ankara the Nazi hierarchy tried to outbid the Anglo-French formula of peacefully proffered federation by proffering...
Princess Wilhelmina's life was mostly work and little play. At ten her father died and she became Queen, with her able mother acting as Regent. On her first appearance on the balcony of the Royal Palace at Amsterdam she is said to have asked: "Mama, do all these people belong to me?" Queen Emma answered: "No, my child, it is you who belong to all these people." Her preparation by private tutors for queenship was guided by this principle. At 18, in 1898, she was crowned in the New Church at Amsterdam, swearing to support the Constitution...
...nothing but ambrosia and champagne, and he didn't like this. And he saw that this was an opportunity to show the common people that he had the same middle-class sentimentality that they had, so he edicted in his common-touch manner--"There are some things in life holier than the mundane desires of earth. Sentiment is more noble than stomachly desires. Your Governor realizes this and asks you not to deprive your children of the edifying effect of tradition. Let us celebrate our own dear Thanksgiving as usual...
...genius at rendering intimate accounts of New England life in poetry has caused him to be recognized as one of our foremost American poets and won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1930, and 1937, in addition to many other awards and honorary degrees...