Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some Leipzig student players recently visited him at Doom. Said Wilhelm, addressing them: "The only thing that bears me up here is the constant growth of the monarchist movement in Germany. I cannot understand why my abdication was taken as a matter of course by the German people when I had done such immeasurable good for the country, always seeing to it that even the poorest had a sufficient income. I don't know how I can face my grandfather. . . . My hands were clean in the great struggle which was caused by Russia. Our May offensive was the greatest success...
...Mussolini has decided that proportional representation is a good thing, but only for the minority. He has proposed that Italy be considered as a single district. The party getting the largest vote gets two-thirds of the seats, the other third to be divided proportionally among the other parties. Under this scheme, the Fascisti Party might have only one-third of the votes, but get two-thirds of the seats...
...advocate prohibition," he continued, " but if we wish to remain good and intimate friends with America, it is not quite the right thing to make fun of America]', attempts to deal with the drink problem...
Here is something American to the core-a thing most natively American in its every attribute, sprung like the border ballads from an aspect of American life now almost completely gone, preserved for the amazement of an age well nigh as different from the age that produced the rodeo as the Court of George V is from the court of Henry VIII...
...head repeatedly into the same stone wall has the kind of head least likely to be affected by the process. He shows perseverance, but not determination to succeed. Wisdom consists in changing the method as the result of experience while retaining the object; or to state the same thing in a larger way, if the purpose of a man in life is to do something of real value, and after sufficient trial he becomes convinced that his abilities or circumstances do not justify a belief that he can do so in the direction that he first proposed...