Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beyond this the situation was befogged. A new election in the near future is by no means improbable. One thing remained clear: Premier Baldwin's protection program (TIME, Nov. 26) was killed...
...bookshop is an insidious thing. Its portals are as inviting as the jaws of a trap. The unwary passerby is almost irresistibly lured into its mellow interior, perhaps to while away a pleasant hour in contemplation of its variegated shelves, perhaps only to escape a sudden shower. There is so agreeable an absence of obligation. No one feels the least demand upon his purse when he enters a bookshop, any more than when he strays into a friend's library. He means only to "look around," feels a. certain pride in assuring the unobtrusive salesman that he is hardly...
William Jennings Bryan: "My head covered with a skull cap, I made an address before the Brooklyn Jewish forum on the subject, What The World Needs. My solution was that obedience to God's laws, is the one and and only thing needed to set all things right...
...surprising thing is that the nation has not already produced the writer of such a story. For unless the country, feeling stately prosaic has become convinced of the need of creating romantic atmosphere, it is hard to explain why this ancient game of "cops and robbers" is allowed to continue...
...Rousmaniere expressed the opinion that the present fundamental movement is a reactionary result of the liberal thought fostered by the war. As for the heralded "rift in the Episcopal Church" he was positive that no such thing would occur." Ever since the sixteenth century, there have been two parties, liberal and conservative, in the church. It is the old difference of high church and low church...