Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experimental plant, told me he had made up his mind to discontinue absolutely and permanently in any publication owned by him all articles such as those that had given offense to Jews. He added that if his orders were violated he would?I quote his words?'shut the thing down completely and throw out the machinery...
...maintain that naval needs are relative. So far in this conference, aside from what we consider minor details, Great Britain has not offered to give up one single thing...
...There is no such thing as absolute needs. If needs were absolute then there would have been no need for a conference. Each nation would merely have stated its own needs and let it go at that...
...revue at all. It is less clever, more loud, bawdy, vulgar and-to people who like that sort of thing-vastly more entertaining than a Times Square revue could ever be, for the revue is not native while the night club is- even in a theatre. It has the perfection of a weed that grows unashamedly where Nature intended. It has the dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats. Undoubtedly, it lacks refinement and many another virtue. "Honestly, Tex," says a stage policeman along in the second act, "don't you think virtue pays?" To which...
...prize prude of the radical movement; a man who can say that he has never told a smutty story in his life and who was once described by his former marital partner,* through the papers of the civilized world, as 'an essential monogamist' - a very old-fogyish thing...