Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schoolteachers were glum, but some other persons cheered, when President Coolidge chose not to proclaim an American Education Week this year. In 1923, 1924, 1925 he proclaimed this "Week" but not last year, when U. S. Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert advised it was unnecessary. The President's secretary, Everett Sanders, explained this year to President Cornelia S. Adair of the National Education Association: "The President has expressed himself fully as to his convictions on the value of education and holds that to rephrase such sentiments tends rather to weaken them...
...crimes with which he was accused. Extortion in particular he condemned as a "frivolous" act. "I would be ashamed to commit it!" said he. "Although I am the nephew of Gaetano Ferrarello, [another notorious bandit chief who killed himself in prison rather than face trial], I am proud to proclaim that I am an honest man and a perfect gentleman...
...situation has changed. Hungary was compelled by the Little Entente to pass a law forever excluding the Habsburgs. But Hungarians regard this law as an act of duress. At the first possible opportunity they will pass another law; but whether that law will restore Otto to his royal rights, proclaim his popular cousin (Albrecht) king or allow the National Assembly to elect whomsoever it pleases, nobody can say. All that Hungarians are conscious of is that their "Kingless Kingdom on the Danube" is an anomaly that, for political reasons, must soon be decided one way or the other...
Many persons of small faith have said to themselves: "Now that I am very ill and not likely to be made whole by the ministrations of leeches, I shall say a prayer. If I recover, it will be because my prayer has been granted and therefore I shall proclaim the existence of God to be an established fact and shall praise and magnify Him forever...
...Miserables. While forced into retirement by the displeasure of Napoleon, Victor Hugo wrote his great novel venting protest against the harsh penal system of the day. He meant to proclaim the Christian doctrine that all men are brothers, the hopeful opinion that even the most reprehensible wretch is kin to God. His example is Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly...