Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the titles are as follows: "An Affectionate Address to Young People on Filial Duty", "A Parent's Household Medical Guide", containing all the amusing and peculiar beliefs and prescriptions of the time. "The Evils of Illicit Distillation, "Saved in a Cell", and "The Profane Coachman's Conversion...
...Burns agency is not seeking to help any guilty man out of trouble. My policy always has been to put the cards on the table . . . etc. etc." Now, with a jail sentence looming, Father Burns implied that such talk had been but the bellicose outburst of a parent trying to protect...
Among the dogmas of the intelligentsia, from earliest times onward, has stood the belief that opera was not to be done in English; and this belief has very naturally been the parent of a widespread conviction, that opera, in America, is an entertainment only for the elite. Mr. George Eastman, always enthusiastic for community improvement, defied both of these doctrines in his theater at Rochester; skepticism has given way to applause, and the American Opera Company, surviving the early lances of critics, will visit Boston with a reputation already made...
...King Alexander decides that, for the first time, he will call to the Premiership a statesman outstanding in the ranks of the "minority peoples" who cluster around the parent kingdom of Serbia.* His Majesty, not without guile, calls to the Premiership that fiery Croat, famed, boisterous, bibulous Stefan Raditch. The King, whose power is rooted in Serbia, knows that so erratic and frequently boozy a statesman will not lead the "minorities" into a commanding position...
...results of the expedition, while they will be some time in preparation, are expected to be an important factor in determining how radical hybrids compare with their respective parent stocks in fertility and vitality, in mental characteristics, and in respect to social efficiency and economic and political stability...