Word: rican
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason the Astor-Smith relation seemed so strange was, of course, that Politics and Society have long been divorced in the U. S. It is not yet so in England, nor in Virginia. Although she says "Amer-r-rican" like a dowager duchess, Lady Astor was every bit as politic as a national committeewoman or an assistant attorney-general. She drove about her native state admiring the improvements and nodding to all the people her friends hoped would be Democratic voters. She was politic with a very fat traveling salesman who rescued her with his flivver when her car broke...
...Porto Rican, proud of my country...
...contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn the sport as the essence of manhood and beauty...
...issue and that law enforcement was necessary. A wet plank asking for the repeal of the Volstead Act was voted down 801 to 291. Further planks called for the prohibition of injunctions, and condemned American intervention in Nicaragua on behalf of American capitalists. A plank introduced by a Porto Rican delegate calling for independence for Porto Rico was defeated without a record vote...
...Porto Rican trio opposed the policy of intervention with armed forces, and cited the bad results of such a policy in Haiti, Santo Domingo, Nicaragua, and the Latin-American world generally. They claimed that not one American was killed in Haiti or Santo Domingo before United States marines intervened, and they charged that many of the revolutions in Latin-America which made governments unstable were incited by American investors. "More intervention means more investments and more investments means more intervention," was their contention...