Word: realm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young lady of thirteen who raised Brooklyn from the realm of antiquated humor to the Utopia of poesy now has a rival. Another young lady of thirteen, this time from Lynn has proclaimed her muse. Singing not of tenements and traffic but of field mice and clocks of loons, the shoe city Sappho strikes a pastoral note truly becoming in one of her age. One stanza from her "Autumn" shows how nature has fired her girlish genius. "Flocks of loons and coots and mallows Flying southward by the score...
...polities of job getting and boob bumbing? Surely there is a long felt want there." This is Mr. Mencken's latest dictum. Once again the modern Machiavell speaks the credo he has long assumed. Not a treatise which will lift the ethics of the profession of politics into the realm of the ideal, which will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae of all the successful political Barnums of American history--that, and that alone, is the desire of the garrulous editor...
...church is the one agency which makes of business, civic welfare, politics, and the whole realm of our life today things of usefulness and service. The world is better for education and man is better, but if it were not for the influence of the church the results of education and the effects of education would be wasted...
...Pittsburgh Railway coal interests, all of which have torn up their agreements with the United Mine Workers of America with the same abandon that William the Absolute destroyed the treaty which protected the neutrality of Belgium. Mr. Hammond, by his vain mutterings, has brought the present controversy into the realm of political equations. By the same token he has mixed 'the devil's stew for the forthcoming Congress to sup." From Hazelton, Pa., it was reported that rats in schoolhouses were annoying women and girls. The explanation: when mules are taken from the mines, rats are deprived...
...field of business I thought it was money rather than English that talked, and in the realm of the spirit perhaps greater progress is made in other languages...