Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apparently, on that day all good Italians must live like Chinese-on rice. For the edification of the spaghetti-eating populace, Il Duce explained that rice day was in reality a supporting attack in the "battle of wheat," which is being fought to make Italy a cereally self-sufficient country, by reducing the imports of that grain. Rice, he went on, can be raised in Italy on large tracts of land now available...
...develop a social feeling. Social feeling is what enables human beings to survive in this world†. . . . We can now understand why all actions on the useless side of life among problem children, neurotics, criminals, suicides, perverts and prostitutes are caused by a lack in social feeling, courage and self-confidence...
...often genuine; but most intelligent people find more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers of the team of Mencken & Nathan are generally to be found among the mushroom intelligentsia at whom their weapons are pointed; but the admiration is so open-mouthed and so self-conscious that the implied self-criticism is forgotten. Two highly articulate, intelligent, bellicose writers cannot help being in a measure valuable. But it would be difficult to prove that Messrs. Mencken & Nathan, in their tremendous excitement, have done very much more than amuse the few and increase the already overwhelming conceit...
...Rome, Signor Mussolini declared his satisfaction with this year's crop, assessed at 275,000,000 tons, but called attention to the fact that the goal of 375,000,000 tons a year was still a long way off, the figure at which, cereally speaking, Italy will become self-supporting. Said...
When the realization finally came that to wait was futile, Dartmouth tried valiantly to snake dance with all the abandon that the occasion required, but the spell had been broken: Their enthusiasm had been self-suppressed in its spontaneous state, in the cause of sports-manlike conduct--not to insult their opponents with a contempt for the victory. A Harvard football scalp is still a cherished prime in Hanover, though not to be valued higher than a tradition of courtesy...