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...sees. He is not content with regarding the age as one of irreverence in the very young or stagnation in the very old. He grants freely that the young are irreverent and the old are stagnant. But he goes further. He sees this as an age of decadance, of sham, of sensuality, of materialism...
...Philip Snowden, socialist member of Parliament and author. All were accompanied by their wives. The Daily Herald, London radical journal, published angry letters from Laborites. One critic said: " Continuous association with our political opponents is likely to reduce our campaign in the House of Commons to the old sham fight between Tweedledum and Tweedledee which we have done so much to expose...
...naked) for the first time. But they had both ruined that moment by hypocrisy and shame, and the life in her soul had been killed. With the daughter he is slightly more successful. She begins to see the vision, with him, of a world transformed by love, divested of sham, in which everyone sees behind the cloak of the actual to the reality of the spirit, and in which minds commerce freely with each other. That is what he meant by love-a marriage of the spirit, in which one individual for a long or short period, saw deeply into...
...School, Mr. John Bassett Moore, who is the American chosen to be a member of the World Court of the League of Nations. At this reception Professor Sayre spoke on "Arbitration in History" and Mr. Moore spoke on "World Courts." In December Mr. George W. Wicker-sham of New York addressed the Society on "Some Practical Considerations in the Practice of the Law." Through the courtesy of the faculty the January meeting was addressed by another of its guests, Sir John W. Salmond, the author of several works on legal subjects, and the representative of New Zealand at the Limitation...
...increase in revenue. Not only is the Chinese government sorely in demand for money, but her infant industries need a reasonable amount of protection. These are rights which are undeniably due the Chinese people, unless the integrity of their country is to continue to be a baseless sham...