Word: paradoxical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian press recently divulged the fact that the War Lord had addressed Bolshevik students on Aug. 1, the anniversary of the date 'Germany declared war on Russia, in a noteworthy anti-American speech. The War Lord found it something of a paradox that "America, which is supported by its industries and which helped to crush Germany in order to keep out a solid competitor, emerged from it (the War) with a pacifist reputation...
Next day, a South Dakota Bishop, Bernard J. Mahoney, performed a paradox. He condemned the Ku Klux Klan without naming it and at the same time scored the two larger political Conventions for having failed to name it in their condemnations...
When questioned further, the member explained how such a paradox would be possible. The Platform Committee is already working on a practical and constructive platform, embodying, of course, the usual Democratic principles, but whether this platform will be adopted by the convention will depend in a large part upon the voting strength of the Democratic delegates present. There are rumors abroad, the reporter was told, that independent groups are making deep-laid schemes to secure the adoption of certain measures contrary to the accepted principles of the Democratic party. A strong and well-organized crowd might even "capture" the convention...
Although Rome was deluged by a continuous and torrential downfall of rain, the Romans were miserable from thirst. The paradox is explained by a landslide which broke the Tivoli Aqueduct and thereby cut off Rome's domestic water supply...
Roseanne. The Negro is one of the comic traditions of our native drama. Accordingly, the producers of this serious study of Southern life run the risk of casting a paradox in the public teeth. Visitors to whom Shuffle Along is the alpha and omega of Negro theatricals may be annoyed at the sturdy significance of Roseanne. For it seems to be one of the more important components of the current theatrical constituency. The story deals with the religious rascality of a Negro priest. In the midst of a howling revival meeting, word comes that he has seduced a girl. Promptly...