Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, impossible at this time to judge Trotzky's merits in this new role. Perhaps his historical works are propaganda. Still, they may be books of great historical value. If the latter, Trotzky has done a rash thing to brave the patriotic furor of the Russian people with truths they do not want to hear. He might well have remembered the calumny visited upon American historians who dared to hint that the British of the Revolutionary period were not all tyrants and rogues, and that George Washington may not have cut down the cherry tree...
...that is one remedy-like burning the lights all night because you are afraid of the dark. But it would be much better to realize in the first place that in a competition so close as to cause any hesitancy in the judges' decision, a win is neither a thing to be puffed up over, nor is a loss any disgrace of how! about, it should also be remembered that those who take part in "man to man" contests are used to the matter of decisions, and that grumble as they may, it is not something altogether new and baffling...
...lack of religion. He began with a few words of sorrow over the Reformation. 'Some centuries ago,' he said, 'some of the great schools of Europe like Oxford and Cambridge forgot their duty to their mother.' As a result, according to the Cardinal, 'they have just missed the real thing. They have missed the way because they have cut off the light...
...underscore the dramatic situations which are the opera's chief virtue, but to give rare opportunity to the singers themselves, chorus and principals, to make the most of the vocal tone which is so important in Italian opera, where the singer is more than anywhere else the thing...
...Sunday morning, in Binghamton, N. Y., the Rev. D. Stanley Shaw waxed warm as he got on with his sermon in the Tabernacle Church. One thing had led to another; Pastor Shaw found himself talking about U. S. newspapers. As reported by those who heard him, Pastor Shaw declared that the average modern newspaper, not excluding the dailies right there in Binghamton, were not worth more than 15 minutes of the time of a Christian reader. Some in the congregation quoted Pastor Shaw as adding: "Modern newspapers are a stench in the nostrils of decent people and reek with accounts...