Word: selfishnesses
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...always, he took a few swings at certain Republicans: "The Republican Party must completely forsake the tempting notion that it can win by the amalgamation of the dissident groups in America -the narrow nationalists, the economically selfish . . . above all, the religious and racial bigots. In other words, we Republicans must take the affirmative, eschew the negative...
...opera, il furbo [applied to Mussolini-TIME, June 21] ... is a not-too-sinister trickster and cheat whose schemes, for a time, prosper greatly. Invariably, however, he overextends himself and becomes involved in a fatal tangle. Only the intervention of providence, or some powerful protector who can make selfish use of his talents, saves him from final disaster. He emerges with his life, but shorn of all his gains...
Will we have to go all the way to real total war-the killing of all prisoners . . . before war becomes terrible enough for men to submerge their selfish interests and really determine, whatever the cost, to organize a world in which war no longer has a place...
...behold a world as selfish, just as selfish...
...years in the front-line trenches of Chicago politics, the First World War . . seemed almost tame." He returned to the America of President Wilson ("that damned Presbyterian hypocrite" was how T.R. described him to Ickes), soon to be come the America of Harding ("nominee of those turbulent, grasping, selfish...