Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe his published opinion. In order to hold his job, the reviewer must grind out comment which will command attention. And obviously the easiest method of inspiring interest is the satirical. All mankind from the village gossip to the astute politician is quite willing to hear evil of its neighbor, be he friend...
...stainless memory. He said that he did not believe that George Washington was immoral. . . . Down the length of the white cloth, angry heads nodded agreement. Nobody was looking at Mr. Hughes now. The men who sat on each side of him pretended each of them to engage his other neighbor in conversation. It was not that they differed with him in their scholastic findings; they were not familiar with the musty documents from which he had drawn his conclusions; but they had read about George Washington in school and-well, they did not like what he had said...
...been their acting minister the past six months. He takes pains in bringing to all his people the word of God. And this the deaf appreciate because, deprived of a sense and often mocked at, they tend to withdraw from more normal associates. They all too constantly fear a neighbor may be gossiping about them...
Seek but the neighbor column for effective wrath. There is vengeance, not merely wreaked but wrought. And, as one observes the accused patrolman and discerns how he writhes his swollen eyeballs to watch both his civilian accuser and the police lieutenant, how gaily his hand trembles as the lieutenant bends to record "assault" upon the ledger, how he whips out his pistol and spures the flame, one cannot but admire the felicitous workmanship, polished, final...
There "she lived in such style as to eclipse her 'neighbor George' (the King) in St. James's, across the way." There she died in 1744, aged 85, as her physicians attempted to "blister" her, vowing "I won't be blistered...