Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discontent abroad in the land; there is threatened disintegration in the Republican Party. . . . Two warring philosophies of government." One is " ultraconservative, materialistic . . . vigorously contesting every human advance." The other is "idealistic and forward looking," avoiding ultra-conservatism and ultra-radicalism,"mindful of existing rights but recognizing conditions and mankind's gradual progress...
...undertaking, more so, one feels, even than a History of the World, because, where such a History may skip, or may state bare facts and drift on, here one must stop and interpret master achievement in universality. War, Politics, Philosophy, Economy, Letters, Art, Trade, it is like taking "all mankind" for one's business...
...Last summer, after my return to Germany, I travelled on to Vienna. Judging from the conditions there, the Viennese had an even harder time but they, in their misfortune, had attracted the attention of mankind. Foreign relief societies and foreign bankers had combined to assimilate the rehabilitation of Austria. The Austrians were working for their eventual prosperity, and working hard, because they felt that they were getting somewhere. It seemed to them that they had rounded the corner and that conditions from then on would become slowly better, until, in their children's time, the country would have returned...
...Theatre has decided that it is oversexed. Fourteen plays (TIME, Oct. 29) plus various musical revues now current in Manhattan were intent upon the discussion or display of feminine attraction and its results upon a fallible mankind. So intent were six of these that the Society for the Suppression of Vice began to move restlessly in its cocoon. There was danger that it might burst and become a full-fledged moth to eat through the linings of the managers' money bags. But no. The managers, the actors, the playwrights put their hard old heads together. A plan developed...
...great experiment is ended. Mankind, wandering away from the Evangelist, has found desolation and death. More than one promise and more than one threat has been fulfilled. Now in our desperation nothing is left to us but the hope of Thy return. If Thou dost not come to arouse the sleepers in the mire of our Inferno it is a sign that the chastisement for our betrayal seems to Thee still too light and that Thou dost not want to change the order of Thy laws. And Thy will be done now and always in Heaven and on earth...