Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only at a few selected seasons, such as Christmas and Eastertide, does Signor Benito Mussolini abandon his august bachelor existence at Rome and journey to Milan, there to live for a few days with his totally self-effacing consort Donna Rachele Mussolini...
Professing to serve party before self, Candidate Reed last week stormed afresh at the G. O. P. in speeches through the South. At the university town of Chapel Hill, N. C., he cried: "Senator Borah and the insurgents are all that are left of the soul of the Republican Party in Washington! Have you ever heard from Coolidge or from any member of the Cabinet any protest against the present iniquities? The entire crowd is tainted...
That "by his misconduct and brutality in office he forfeited all right to respect from self-respecting, intelligent Southerners...
...same old sorrows and self pity are fast taking new expression in "sweet Blues comin' from a black man's soul-achin' hearted Blues, all alone Blues, baby-won't-you-please-come-home Blues, chain-gang Blues, mo' Blues than angels in Heaven can sing...
...third report on Russia, set down emotionally rather than factually by famed Novelist Theodore Dreiser, is now appearing in news organs adherent to the North American Newspaper Alliance. Thus far the emotional genius of Novelist Dreiser has led him into such self-contradictions as are contained in the following statements: 1) "I believe that in the main the Russian people are satisfied with the Soviet mechanism, and that they think it is perfecting itself daily," but 2) "There is a dictatorship of the Communist Party. ... All over Russia you find a kind of terror of the Communists, and what they...