Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students of the stage professed themselves interested. Considerable laughter arose from the benches. Yet the casual theatregoer found the wit too long drawn out, the story preposterous and the atmosphere difficult to absorb. He realized that the play was not produced for him. His more inquiring neighbor, on the other hand, quite liked...
...Yagna, a neighbor's daughter, was strong as any man, with a milky complexion and a passionate fondness for adornment. The village tongues wagged and the hearts of the village swains were stirred. Constantly they sent to her "proposers." (When a Polish peasant wishes to propose, he sends two friends with vodka to the lady of his choice. If she drinks to him, they are assumed to be affianced.) Yagna bestowed her heart nowhere, and her shrewd mother had not yet seen fit to bestow her hand...
...seems incredible to us, in the Dominion, that you should not have greater knowledge of your northerly neighbor...
...Community Day?"Service to the Community, State and Nation is the First Duty of Every Citizen." Points: "Equality of opportunity," "Better rural schools," "Good roads build a community." Slogans: "Get acquainted with your neighbor," "A square deal for the country boy and girl," "Children today, citizens tomorrow...
...decide speedily upon their conduct toward the luscious, but alarming, vegetable. Besides the ambiguity of the law, the papers had to consider the reactions of their readers and the dictates of policy. Would curiosity overpower the anger of the individual at seeing the private affairs of himself and his neighbor thus laid bare? Would public opinion swing against the publicity and regard it as excessively bad taste? What did one's political affiliations demand?to publish or not to publish? Of Republicans, not to. Of anti-Republicans, by all means to publish?loud, long, vigorously. The cold theory of journalism...