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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Surely Jesus did not mean, "Be too proud to fight," but rather, "Be too loving to fight...
...bell, Nor weak-eyed prisoner of wall and street. . . . Let me be easy on the man that's down; Let me be square and generous with all. I'm careless sometimes. Lord, when I'm in town, But never let 'em say I'm mean or small! . . . Just keep an eye on all that's done and said And right me, sometimes, when I turn aside, And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead That stretches upward toward the great divide...
Cryptic Sirs: ...Finally I wish that you would explain the meaning of the rather cryptic ANNOUNCEMENT which now seems to appear on your letter page each week. Does this mean that you have moved your editorial department away from Cleveland? I surely hope not.... Louise Barker Mrs. B. Barker) Cleveland, Ohio...
...constitution which permits no member of the Free State Parliament to take his seat until he has taken the oath of allegiance. With Mr. De Valera swore the 44 deputies of his Fianna Fail or Republican party. To a strictly judicial ear such mass swearing must have seemed to mean only one thing: formal abandonment by Eamon De Valera of his life-long battle to carve asunder from Britain an "Irish Republic...
...uninitiated persons the fashionable "kinetic theory" of M. Lelong seems to mean chiefly that he designs his dresses with full skirts to permit free leg movement. The French Government sent him to the U. S. in 1925 to report on the working conditions of women throughout the U. S. garment industry...