Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These Daughters of the Revolution, in their living and being, mark one of the many paradoxes which stem from indiscriminate use of that word of words, Patriotism. Their alienation from the spirit and even many of the principles of the Founding Fathers is without parallel in the history of revolutions. A hundred years after England's Revolution in 1689, which was an affair of the same type, although more decorous than ours of '76, there existed in London a Society of the Revolution, sons of Whig stalwarts. It was the program of this society, however, to bring the French Revolution...
Hence the prohibition on Radcliffe participating in "A Bride for the Unicorn" is very nearly parallel to a prohibition on college girls acting in one of the great tragedies; yet Vassar gives Greek plays regularly. A still closer parallel can be found in "Mourning Becomes Electra," with the extremely important distinction that while this is handled realistically, Johnston's play is symbolic. Thus it would be more absurd for Harvard Dramatic Club advisers to ban the latter than O'Neill's play...
Your [March 19] story of M. Chiappe's garbled telephone conversation and the à la rue-dans la rue misunderstanding, which resulted in French troops opening fire upon Paris civilians, brings to my mind a curiously parallel story which was widely circulated after the coup d'état of Napoleon III. According to some historians the massacre of the boulevards resulted from a mistaken command. The official responsible for the fatal order (perhaps Napoleon himself-I forget the exact details) is said to have been suffering from a severe cold, and to have exclaimed "Ma sacré toux...
...nearest parallel to such an investigation as Representative Dickstein is about to launch against a friendly power occurred in 1911. Outraged by stories of pogroms by Tsar Nicholas' whip-wielding Cossacks, the House of Representatives passed a measure repealing the Russian-U. S. trade agreement. President Taft, realizing that there was ammunition for a serious diplomatic explosion, intervened before the bill reached the Senate. Secretary of State Knox announced that the treaty was being abrogated in accordance with its own terms...
...their daughter Edith, 20, to John Mortimer Schiff. 29. only son of the only son of Jacob Henry. The two long paths that met on the mountain top of this third-generation betrothal had never crossed before. Rather, the one from Frankfort and the one from Troy had run parallel for nearly three-quarters of a century. Jacob Schiff was too urbane, and George F. Baker was too smart, ever to become embroiled in the raucous battles of the market place. Occasionally they had backed opposing forces but always with the fine disinterestedness of a French munitions maker. More often...