Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of Congressman R. B. Creager of Texas is mentioned for the post of Ambassador, inasmuch as President Harding was known to favor Mr. Creager?a former neighbor of his at Marion, O. It is " understood " that Mr. Coolidge will follow his predecessor's intention; but predictions about the new President are unreliable...
...then, does this modern realism sell? The public pays to be castigated. It prefers castor oil to Coca-Cola. Perhaps this realism is a sort of invert flattery. Everyone sees Babbitt in his neighbor. Nobody sees Babbitt in himself. That is highly satisfactory...
...Moon Calf (Felix) and Eric Dorn: they are too despicable to be yourself and have too fine a sinful time to be your neighbor. He lives inside a commutation ticket and brings the groceries home at night...
...Zankov, new Premier, issued a manifesto declaring that the new Government will abide by ths terms of the Treaty of Neuilly and that it " is absolutely opposed to any sort of warlike adventure." Despite this pronouncement, neighboring countries-Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece-are holding their armies on the frontiers " in case of accidents." Turkey, another neighbor, was considerably perturbed over the Bulgarian crisis, as it was thought likely that an attempt would be made to establish a Bulgarian outlet on the Aegean Sea. This would have had an instant effect on the Lausanne Conference. However, it can be said that neither...
...fighting spirit, but unfortunately furnished them with a fighting code which demanded just one retaliation for every slur on a man's name, home or country, namely, immediate and direct action with ax, gun, or flst. Where each man who was not a coward was considered equal to his neighbor, there was no discounting an insult because of the stupidity or lack of breeding in the man responsible for it. An earlier and more polished society which recognized the duelling code distinguished between affronts coming from a "gentleman", and those arising from a boorish and Lefthanded mentality...