Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First, does Reader Knapp realize that when he makes light of the Boy Scout movement, that there are close to one million Boy Scouts doing a Good Turn da'ly? Does he realize that these boys will be the men of the future generation and that because of their training there will not be any such catastrophe as the World War, in which millions of men were killed? If Reader Knapp can recall 365 good deeds, in any year during his boyhood, he surely would be more broad-minded than he is today...
...would feel silly to allow myself to be annoyed by the mutterings of a dolt like this, except for the fact that he reflects an odious and rather ill-deserved light on Germans in general (of whom I am not one). I have lived several years in European countries, including Germany, and I have never noticed that there were more thickheads per capita in Germany than elsewhere, although misguided-† like this Muller are likely to give this impression...
...Excerpts: Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches grow, I love creation better as it stood That day you finished it so long ago And looked upon your work and called it good. I know that others find you in the light That's sifted down through tinted window panes, And yet I seem to feel you near tonight In this dim, quiet starlight of the plains. I thank you, Lord, that I am placed so well, That you have made my freedom so complete ; That I'm no slave of whistle, clock or bell...
Stalwart Republicans made light of these remonstrances, saw nothing unusual in forcing the national army to use the national colors, adding that permission to fly the monarchist emblem might lead to a part of the army fighting against the Republic, if they so chose...
Artists, remembering figures on old vases of boys holding the wild, light reins of hurrying chariots, marble men lounging on their pedestals in an effortless perfection, men behind plows or on top of girders shoving or straining in to a sudden rapid beauty, could not deny some element of truth in these remarks. Nor could they regard the term "beauty show" as applied to a procession of pseudonymphs kept decently warm by hairpins and the emblem of their hometowns as more than a misappellation, not to be corrected by the inclusion of seminaked gentlemen...