Word: tear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is Holger Drachmann with his outward insouciance, his interior delight in shocking a folk who secretly delight in being shocked-all cocked into roguishly droll, yet essentially sad, stanzas. The tongue i'-the cheek cannot quite outdo the tear...
...representatives, when an organized few threaten them with failure at the next election, immediately bury their better judgments under tons of campaign truckling and subserviency. When legislators thus live with their ears to the ground, an unorganized minority of agitators, by stamping and kicking hard enough, can tear down any sane government in the face of a more passive majority...
...very much in the nature of an experiment which professors try on the undergraduate, frequently with dubious results. But if we, the objects of so much investigation would make an effort to actively record our sensations at various stages of the procedure, we may possibly spare tome wear and tear on future specimens. In any event no Senior should neglect this opportunity to write, for the common welfare, his brief but poignant treatise on "How I Would Run the College...
...most in want of their help and support? Why, when constructive statesmanship is needed, do Mr. De Valera and his followers content themselves with standing by and babbling vague denunciations to whoever has time to listen? The Irish Free State has yet to be built still they would tear it down before it is even started. Constitutional opposition in a regularly organized parliament is one thing; loud invective and rebellious threats against a newly organized government not able to stand on its feet is quite another. The first may be the course of a patriot; the second savors only...
...small, unite into agreements regarding their common welfare on the basis of mutual understanding, conciliation, and cooperation". For the accomplishment of this, the speaker pointed out, the European countries must sink nationalism in internationalism, must demobilize not only their armies but also their jealousies and hatreds, "and tear down all trade restrictions, tariff walls, and passport regulations...