Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time when two extremes of opinion divided the Western world, he was able to stick to a policy of moderation, and choosing neither side remain true to a love of personal liberty in thought and action. Erasmus hated war above all else; he believed in improving conditions by evolutionary methods...
...their pocketbooks for the time being. The Swedes have a democracy much like the English democracy, with a benevolent and hard-working king who fills a deep-seated need for color and is also a symbol about which the various and opposed political parties find a common focus. They love their king and they love their personal rights, just as they love in right proportions their safety (in co-operation) and their freedom (in individual enterprises...
...Alleyndene had been painfully growing up in a prosperous household to which the Vicar preached for a time. She went to Oxford, became a War nurse, learned that her brother had been on the verge of being disgraced for his homosexuality before he was killed in action, fell in love with a cheerful, courageous Harvard graduate who was serving with the British troops. Readers accustomed to scathing portraits of U. S. citizens in British and European fiction are likely to be taken aback by Vera Brittain's eloquent, recurring, heartfelt tributes to U. S. generosity, youth, bravery, virility...
...they appeared from the powder magazine, John Nicol reaches his highest point in his account of the voyage of a convict ship that transported female convicts to New South Wales. All the sailors took wives from among the convicts on their first day at sea. Nicol fell in love with a modest, unfortunate girl named Sarah Whitelam, who bore him a son before the twelve-months voyage was over. Determining to take her back to England and marry her as soon as her sentence was served, he got a berth on a whaler, found that he could not return...
...confession, psychologically a perfectly satisfactory method of relieving the mind (and one that the Catholic Church has been availing itself of for some time), their admitted social discrimination, and an insistence on the fulfillment of the four key words of absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love. The social discrimination is justified by the statement that it is folly to have their "teams" attempt mass conversions, but that conversion of the "key people" in a community will have the same result. And the four words are the principles that will give us a world born anew...