Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation had a. better reason to speak than the editor of the Nation (weekly), Oswald Garrison Villard, for whom pacifism is a supreme virtue.* To him, the U. S. participation in the World War was a crime-he said so at the time and had some of his writings barred from the U. S. mails-to him, the Versailles peace settlement was an atrocity; to him, the last ten years have been a mess-an inevitable mess, resulting from a noxious disease. Last week was clearly his week and he wrote with the wrath of a decade...
...have a number of vices and weaknesses which I never attempted to hide, but wine is not one of them.' Also, the news came out last week that King Alfonso will be unable to carry out the Holy Week custom of pardoning a murderer, for the simple reason that there is no one in Spain awaiting execution. It is well known that no one was executed last year and that crime has been considerably decreased during my premiership...
...student has no choice in the matter. Because he enrolls in a university or college he has no part nor any reason for having any part in choosing what he shall get from the university or in dictating how the university shall...
...There is no reason this morning why the Vagabondial alarm clock should be set at any hour earlier than 9.30 o'clock...
...display this week in the Widener Memorial Room are many works of William Blake. Among these are three original watercolor drawings: "America, a Prophesy", drawn by him, and for some unknown reason never published; Death's Door", and "The Union of the Soul and Body...