Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these times of peace and plenty hatred lives on, eating its way into the core of patriotism. Under the guise of national devotion. America still nourishes her pre war malice, keeping it going with parades, anniversaries, and celebrations. The spirit that was once typical of Germany's Prussian leaders is still charged to the whole nation...
...strikes engender among hoi polloi will harm their party were they to let Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...
...Hungary, archaeologists discovered peasants of the village O-szöny, near Budapest, feeding pigs in Roman sarcophagi troughs, hoarding gems and jewelry dug from their cottage foundations, which were placed on the original foundations of Brigetio, a Roman city of 40,000 inhabitants. Some children scrabbled up pre-Roman vessels of solid gold, dated 800 B. C. by the Hungarian National Museum...
Among the song and dance displays, the following are generally conceded preëminence: Ziegfeld Follies, Music Box, Rose-Marie, Lady, Be Good; The Student Prince...
...This criticism", he continues, referring to the editorials, "is often unduly violent. This may be inevitable, as in pre-revolutionary Russia, but it is none the less significant. President Eliot fears for the future of the presidency just because of the criticisms that are heaped upon the incumbent. He believes that the life service tradition should be held inviolable but that men are liable to break, or to be driven from office. This condition, if it were obtained, would cause the kind of man which the office demands to avoid it, tion, it assumes a super...