Word: patriotically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three stories in this volume from an ascending climax of quality, so far as this reviewer is concerned, though the publisher's opinion is evidently different. "King Haber" has, perhaps, greater potentialities than either "Schoolmaster Taussig" or "The Patriot", but the quiet tone of the story leaves an impression of dullness rather than the solemn grandeur that is the author's intent. The character of this banker in a small German principality--a man who reaches the position of the Duke's favorite, and himself almost provides the heir to the throne--is a powerful creation, but the presentation never...
...politicans who effused over the new discovery was Secretary of Labor Davis who telegraphed: "Cordial thanks for your message of congratulations and the privilege extended of sending greetings to those honoring the memory of Hugo N. Frye. It is a pleasure to testify to the career of that sturdy patriot who first planted the ideals of our party in this region of the country. If he were living today, he would be the first to rejoice in evidence everywhere present that our government is still safe in the hands of the people...
...Dublin's brindle-bearded George William Russell, poet, painter, philosopher and sprightly sage, famed as "AE." As greatly beloved as any living Irishman, Poet Russell had roused the furies by a pungent critique* of Ireland's secret and romantic brotherhoods as they exist today. A tough old patriot himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object the freedom of Ireland. There was good reason, too, for their being secret. "All small nationalties submerged in great empires tend...
There is no space here to take up in detail the principles upon which this great patriot founded his scheme of government. They include the introduction of a system of state capitalism, the replacement of the family by the individuals as the responsible unit of the state, and the enforcement of absolute eauality in dealings with foreign nations. Full realization of these ideals may take many years but in time they will succeed in restering China to the position of a world Professor Holcombe concludes on a note of optimism, and no one who reads the closely-reasoned and well...
Thou, America, enshrined, In ev'ry patriot soul, To olden greeds and hatreds blind, In unity thy strength shall bind The nations that they find In brotherhood their goal...