Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long-standing wish to have her status as an independent kingdom confirmed by membership in the League. Equally aware, however, is the League of Great Britain's strong opposition to this step, for Egypt, which Britain relinquished as a Protectorate in 1922 but which she still maintains the right to control because of the Suez Canal, is the chief route to India, vital artery of British trade...
...democratic form of government, or rather for the constitutional monarchy as it exists at present under King Boris, but I am opposed to any dictatorship from Left or Right. When I return I shall re-enter political life as a member of the National Liberal Party...
...only was Russian Orthodoxy threatened but also Russian Atheism. The Soviet Government, therefore, has lately passed several laws intended to weaken Baptist activities (TIME, April 22). Last week, Russian Baptists, still strong, conducted a mass and total Baptism in the Moscow River. Horrified the Soviet Working Moscow editorialized: "Right here in Moscow! With the All Union Atheist Convention just ended and the delegates not yet back home- with the Soviet Congress not a month ago having passed a resolution limiting religious propaganda-and what do we see? An incredible proceeding-a mass Baptism by a religious cult in the Moscow...
Baker Krusack is Jencic's confidant and civic tutor. He got Jencic's citizenship papers for him at the City Hall and delivered with them this speech: "Now . . . you belong here and nobody can run over you. If anybody makes trouble for you, stand right up to him and tell him not to forget who you are. . . . The new nationalities are according to jobs. Some of these days nobody will ever say a man is a Swiss or a Slav or anything like that; they will say he is a plumber or a baker or a machinist...
...pregnant. This time Jencic proceeds against Baker Krusack's advice. He is his own man now. He says : "I know all about Teena, more'n you do. It is true she done something she shouldn't do, but after we get married it will be all right. Everybody makes mistakes. What if people didn't forget such mistakes, then everybody would be mad at everybody else, and nobody would have even one friend...