Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight to drive out Communism from America. In this section fall Americanism slogans and stories and drives for teachers' oath laws. The teachers' oath law is a step in such legislation; when the League ends, everyone will have to take an oath to the Constitution before every meal...
...Engels was much more than a revo lutionary scholar's meal ticket. He and Marx collaborated constantly on their analysis of capitalism, their prophecies of capitalism's doom. He was quicker-witted and a more facile writer than Marx, who once told him: "You know that I am slow to grasp things, and that I always follow in your footprints." The Communist Manifesto, gist of the gospel according to Marx, was their joint work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them...
...College, all residents of the Houses would have a much more direct control over those whom they were going to vote for, and consequently would be inclined to take a greater interest in the affairs of the House. Voting would be a two minute job before or after a meal, thus dong away with the difficulties of collecting signatures for petitions to add names to a ballot that a partisan Committee might have committed...
...French border fortifications, amuses us for some queer reason. It seems so silly, the French sitting in their great concrete bomb-shelters waiting for the war while the Germans quietly crawl under the forts and leave tons upon tons of T.N.T., after which they return to a lusty meal of frankfurts and sauerkraut, the enfants de la patrie firmly ensconced in the palm of their hand. The best-laid schemes, etc., etc., . . . . See you Friday...
...Where shall we sit?" She thought she recognized the voice of one of the House's more insufferable jokesters. "Right this way, darling," she called over her shoulder and led the way to a vacant table. She drew out a chair and made ready to hand the student his meal check, when she saw seating himself no student, but Aldrich Durant, (among other things overlord of the Dining Hall), much amused...