Word: thenceforward
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...Injustice is the theme. The story opens with a minor but significant example. Bertin, who in peacetime had been a well-known German novelist, is now simply a near-sighted private in the Army Service Corps, gets into serious hot water for giving some thirsty French prisoners a drink. Thenceforward he is a marked man, is relentlessly persecuted by his superiors, given dirty and dangerous jobs, punished for no reason, refused leave...
...break the strike, employers fortnight ago "opened the waterfront" by moving freight under guard. The strikers heaved bricks, police used gas and guns, and 48 hours later National Guardsmen marched in. Thenceforward the struggle ceased to be between strikers and employers but became a struggle between strikers and the State. The marine workers appealed to their fellow unions for a general strike, and San Francisco's militant unions jumped to take sides. Some groups, reluctant to join, were intimidated. Aggressive strike leaders had, however, a potent cause, an issue to arouse emotion: should Labor impose its will or should...
...damned Prohibition and likened Andrew Mellon to Judas Iscariot, was getting 80,000 or more letters a week from his listeners. He went to Washington to appeal to the Post Office Department for a special postal substation to handle his mail. While there he too met George LeBlanc and thenceforward his sermons took on a more and more economic tinge until he was in the front of the battle for cheapening the dollar...
...United States. "The traits of American character were fixed; the rate of physical and economical growth was established; and history, certain that at a given distance of time the Union would contain so many millions of people, with wealth valued at so many millions of dollars, became thenceforward chiefly concerned to know what kind of people these millions were to be. They were intelligent, but what paths would their intelligence select? They were quick but what solution of insoluble problems would quickness hurry? They were scientific, and what control would their science exercise over their destiny? They were mild...
...Thenceforward the professor's misery grows more and more Tolstoyan until, as the grand climax, Commissar of Education Anatole Lunacharsky appears upon the film in his official capacity, raises up the professor from lowest depths, and places him in a Moscow laboratory where, among congenial atheists, he can complete his "Great Experiment...