Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bishop of Scranton had just warned his auditors against dangerous radicalism, adding: "Understand, however, a man may be a radical and do the right thing. Mussolini did a vast amount for the tranquility and prosperity of Italy." Then one of Cappellini's supporters moved that his leader be allowed to speak. Cheers burst from the delegates. Cappellini was given the floor and made his way to the platform amid an ovation...
...some of the Verses of an Especially Inscriptional Character, where Mr. Lindsay's very much unappreciated lyric gift is seen at its best. And My Fathers Came from Kentucky?and others?many others?kettledrum, piccolo, flute and birchbark moose-call?in fact, almost every instrument. Really, the only thing to do with a book like this is to read...
...MARGIN?Aldous Huxley ?Doran ($1.75). Seventeen brief notes and essays by the most brilliant young literary man in England. Pleasant, intelligent, rather entertaining little papers. The astonishing thing about them is that they are so mild. So very mild. The book might have been written by almost any bright young gentleman who chose to model his style on that of E. V. Lucas. Did you ever think you were about to degust a genuine pre-War cocktail and then discover as you swallowed that the beverage was strictly...
Specifically, for example, the conference desires to eliminate from schoolbooks all " spreadeagle nationalistic propaganda." Said one leader, Miss Charl Ormond Williams: " Children of one country do not hate children of another unless they are taught to do so. We teachers positively refuse to teach them that sort of thing any longer...
...once said 'the public be damned,' when I testified in a railroad case before the New York State Industrial Commissioner. Said the Commissioner: 'We are concerned about the running of this railroad so that the public will be satisfied.' 'That is the chief thing!' I replied...