Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note is the lack of a leader of military power. . . . This is the most solemn hour of our national life. ... I consider it necessary that we pass from a system of government by one man to a government of institutions. ... It is useless to seek an outstanding or dictatorial person. May I say there are none...
...Samuel Levi, his associate moneylender. Should she refuse to marry Levi, the fortune goes to Levi. Should he refuse to marry her, the fortune goes to her. Knowing not her father's partner, she was amazed to find him a suave, handsome young Jew, not the portly, oppressive person she pictured. Marriage seemed not impossible. But Samuel loved his cousin Rachel, lovely Semite; Lillian loved Captain Yarborough. The solution of these vexing problems is not in the tawdry fashion of Anne Nichols. Though the play be shot with abortive aphorism, it entertains...
...person in such a room absorbs as much ultraviolet rays in ten hours as he would get outdoors in one minute...
...from reality, from conflict. Mrs. Morf it protected from the horror of nearby murder. For her it was too thorough. Others it protects from scolding, from efforts. Sometimes hysteria comes on involuntarily; often the man, woman or child (having observed its value) willfully scurries into it; more often the person tries to fight off an attack and, horrified, watches himself sink into contrariness...
...Knights of Columbus seem a mild and indeed a charitable organization. It will not therefore be easy for the average person to believe that the above great swear is the fourth degree oath of the Knights of Columbus. There are those, however, who know better, and who have spent thousands of dollars circulating copies of this oath among ignorant Protestants. Aware of this and aware also that the oath has never and will never be a part of its ritual, the Knights of Columbus, meeting in National Conference last week in Cleveland, promised to prosecute six unnamed organizations and persons...