Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cambridge, Mass. Sept...
...neatly dressed gentleman. He wore white gloves and tan shoes. He carried an ivory headed malacca cane. His shirt and collar were of a delicate shade of blue. His cravat was blazoned in red and green. He wore a dark blue suit and atop his head concealing the shining mass of his cranium sat a green felt hat, soft, pour le sport...
...discussion of campaign methods he did not place much importance, if any, on the old mass meetings, torchlight parades, great processions, and public speeches by the candidate. He thought the time had gone by for all that and that up-to-date business methods must be employed, and that that was the way he intended to run the campaign for General Wood...
Regular football matches are played off between Finnish and Russian teams. Otherwise, Russians must find competition, like capital, at home. The mass of the population seems to be undergoing "a psychological change very like that through which the luckier sort of European immigrants pass during their first five or ten years in America...
...Russia are the best example of the impotency of an absolute dictatorship to strike at the root-feelings of humanity. The heads of the Soviet Government, admitted atheists, have made a determined assault upon the Orthodox Church by suppressive measures and by launching the rival "laving Church." The great mass of the peasantry have quietly gone on worshipping in the same way as before. Now the Government has surrendered to the ex tent of adopting a laissez-faire policy toward religion. In this, as in countless other ways, the stabilizing weight of the great mass of the people is felt...