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...survive the evils of reconstruction. The last twenty-five years have, however, threatened to destroy the few remaining vestiges of this life. The rising tide of commercial prosperity in which all classes shared and the recent influx of speculating northerners suggested the possibility of this region becoming a veritable slough of Babbittry, rivaling even the Middle West in wide-spread vulgarity. Such a condition seemed imminent in the absence of an effective counteracting influence...
...Progressive Republican" on the commission the new tariff law has recognized this bloc as a distinct faction. In view of the Democratic schism which loomed so large in 1924, and is still quite possible, this rupture within the Republican ranks makes for an added . Should Eastern Democracy slough off the reactionary South it would then occupy a position very similar to Western progressivism...
...expect sickly sentimentality decked in shimmering summer dresses, roses, and orange blossoms--an unseasonable dish, certainly, for a long winter evening. And true enough, the sentimentality, the summer dresses, the roses, and the orange blossoms are all present. Even so "Sweetheart Time" makes easy escape from the anticipated slough of hum-drum mediocrity...
...slough of hypocrisy." Despatche: reported that U. S. consulate; throughout the Reich were deluge with congratulatory or vitupera tive telephone calls...
Catherine Breshkovsky, octogenarian "grandmother of the Russian (Kerensky) Revolution of 1917," spoke to the world from her place of exile, the ancient and venerable city of Prague, CzechoSlovakian capital. She declared that Tsarism "was a little misfortune" to Russia compared with the slough of despondency into which Bolshevism has thrown that unfortunate country...