Word: manifestants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faith. It is not recorded that the Saracen militia were deeply affected by this display, nor that they yielded their stronghold until, some time afterwards, Frederick II ousted them by adroit diplomacy. Nevertheless, the tradition that young people make good auxiliary forces in idealistic undertakings, has persisted. It is manifest today in the literature of Hope and Understanding that is written about the Citizens of Tomorrow, the ushers of the Era of Good Will, the so-called "new" college students. Urged by elders with genius for "organizing" and by precocious contemporaries with faith in "the movement," they are packing their...
...seeks inevitably to rationalize about it. What is it that inspires middle-aged men to return at considerable expense of time, money and dignity, in order to manifest clan loyalty in various and curious manners? And what is this clan loyalty, to an institution of the past, more vital and more enduring than any loyalty Americans have ever professed? Our cities and our states are not for celebrations, nor are our industries or our religions, but the memory of a college fills American streets every June with fanatics, who even dress like the Bantu natives of central Africa...
...rightly to head the column "Intolerance" for, as a Christian missionary in China, I shared the expressed amusement of the press that such men as Reisner, Wise and other prominent ministers should manifest this brand of ecclesiastical provincialism regarding the statue of the Gautama in Central Park...
...candid with my friends, and I am not afraid to say what I believe.* I have played the game of draw poker. I regret to say I am not an expert. That has been forcibly illustrated to me. The old game of draw poker has certain manifest rules and regulations as to what is the highest hand. I believe it is called a straight flush...
...Significance, the grand thing, is to have made Walt known as a natural force is known, by its unhurried yet manifest effects?by putting the reader into the boots of people who knew and felt Walt, bringing his big frame and nature so close that psychological terms are irrelevant and it is unnecessary even to quote the poems to show why they were written, what they mean. If there is a mite of unction spread through Author Rogers' pages, it is not obtrusive nor out of place in a book that is bound to be laid warmly and strongly...