Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pacifist guiding the country when idealism and pacifism are not the ruling passion of the world. Henry William Massingham, famed Liberal editor of London, summed up Macdonald thus: "Not eloquent, but a statesman. A man of principle, but not a fanatic. Elastic without being supple. A character as stainless as Burke or Gladstone...
...least to commissioned officers? Shall we agree that these are greater works of art simply because they tell what we would like to believe if we could? Must we remain forever, as a matter of patriotism, in that state of martial stupefaction, which believes that all American soldiers were stainless Sir Galahads? Indeed, what sort of patriotism is it that insists that the public shall go on thinking that millions of Americans liked crawling before "superiors", being humiliated, hounded, and beaten up by the scum of the M. P. force, and all the rest of the hell...