Word: live
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, director general of the order, made an oration to the effect that men should not be "scrapped" at 50 but preserved by society for a useful old age. He described Moosehaven, the order's Florida home for aged Mooses, as a place "to live, labor and love" instead of "to loaf, linger and die." He went on for two hours?when a page brought him a note from his wife that it was time to stop...
...Live. It is doubtful that more than one-half of President Coolidge's swarthy audience at Pine Ridge understood all that he said. Perhaps there were a few who bridled momentarily at the simple words: ". . . Many Indians are still in a primitive state." The President noted that a great portion of Indians, "mostly the older ones, still cling to the old ways, stoically refusing to go further along the modern road. They wish to live and die according to the old traditional ways of the Indians, and they should be permitted...
...committed against society. Society, through its legal machinery in Massachusetts, had started to bare the skins of Prisoners Sacco, Vanzetti and Madeiros for the touch of Death and then, with a reprieve of which the melodrama was a cheap insult to whatever dignity human life may have, virtually mumbled: ". . . Live on for twelve days longer. Our mind is not quite made...
...dress rehearsal scenes, dressing-room scenes, scenes where the effeminate stage manager fumes. After all is set for the opening night, the actor who plays the part of the producer holds up his hands in dismay, cries: "What a terrible flop ... I don't believe we'll live till Saturday!" Thereupon the real audience at the Lyric Theatre mocked him with loud applause...
...through Horace Collins Pitkin's adolescence sounded the cry to missionary work in China: ". . . his father's last wish. . . ." The father's desires were to live in the son's works. No matter if the son's works had better lean from the father's wants. It was difficult...