Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, in your May 14 issue, 3rd column, page 18, what possible excuse have you for referring to the late Queen Victoria of England as "dumpy"; the word lacks respect when it refers to that beloved ruler of a Great Nation who during her life was described as "the most Queenly woman and the most womanly Queen of her time...
...often by the "pocket" method?letting bills go when Congress was about to adjourn*) 304 bills, mostly Civil War pensions. Historian James Bryce commented: "By killing more bills than all his predecessors put together had done, Mr. Cleveland is supposed to have improved the prospects of his reelection. . . . The nation . . . has good grounds for distrusting Congress...
...Morgue are long dust, but the problem of crime and its prevention lives on. Three contributions to criminology have appeared within the fortnight, important in that they light up the direction of progress, curious in that they show the President of the United States flouting the figures of his nation's experts...
...last sentence refers to a recent speech by Mr. Kellogg before the American Society of International Law, wherein he declared that a nation signatory to the Kellogg Pact would not be deprived of the right to make war in self defense. This interpretation the British have now broadened to mean virtually that any war in which His Majesty's Government may choose to engage will be pro facto a war of self defense...
Last week the British Viscount who thus champions defeated Hungary before the victorious Allies, sent his son to Budapest, to accept the nation's thanks. As young Esmond Harmsworth approached the Capital in an open motor car the demonstration in his honor became so fervent and spontaneous that he was fairly mobbed by hearty wenches in bright peasant costumes who roughly seized and thoroughly kissed his hand...