Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France. In general, the American conception of French thought and action is erroneous. To your Greenwich Villager, France appears pre-eminently the land of personal liberty where individual expression is unshackled. Even our American expatriates sitting shabby and unkempts at "Le Dome" still boast French tolerance and wail American narrow-minded provincialism...
...Governors assembled in the long narrow board room opening upon the grimy interior court of the Treasury building. Around its brownish-yellow walls hung many a chart, their graphs ending in dismal downward dips. (Zigzags were all in black & white because color-blind Governor Meyer has trouble with reds and greens.) After handshakes all around, the Board and its visiting officials settled down in black leather swivel chairs around a long mahogany table for an all-day session...
...affirms through the mouth of St. Paul is ever true, much more is it true at present: 'The desire of money is the root of all evils.' ... Is it not . . . greed . . . that has brought the world to a pass we all see and deplore? From greed arises . . . narrow individualism which orders and subordinates everything to its own advantage, . . . cruelly trampling under foot all rights of others. Hence the disorder and inequality from which arises the accumulation of the wealth of nations in the hands of a small group of individuals who manipulate the market of the world...
...formulated as precisely this ultimate answer to the problem, as the author of this book. Not that Meyer was the spirit of an Italian condottiere in the body of a burgher of the humdrum Swiss nineteenth century, but that through overcompensation for his won sickly body and for the narrow sphere of his activity, he fied--from weakness, not from exuberance of strength--to the grandeur of the times and heroes he represents in his works...
With careful factual detail Author Boden tells of a Derbyshire miner's life, with all its withering working details. The narrow tunnels, the coal seams in which men pick lying sideways all day, the half-blind ponies, the constant fear make up a pretty picture of hell. Above ground things are complicated by lockouts, strikes, broken-spirited drunkenness, and filth. Danny is luckier than most: he has a good though poverty-stricken home, and he has a love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin...