Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much against him [Hitler]," cried the spectacular Virginia lady who 'has sat in the House of Commons since 1919, "that I wouldn't think of accepting an invitation to meet him if one were offered me. I loathe dictators and all they stand for. The most horrible thing Hitler has done is to warp the lives of Jewish children. Isn't it awful we can't tell what this lunatic is going to do next...
There are good folk-dancing and singing in Everywhere I Roam, and fine pictorial moments. But the play itself is dull, and its message is hopelessly sentimental and confused. It is one thing to satirize the evils of predatory industrialism and hymn the praises of clean and sturdy toil. But it is nonsense to give the impression that hardship is better than ease, that back-breaking hours over a plow are beautiful, that the hand is quicker than the machine, or that the profit motive was first discovered shortly before the Civil...
...reason for being proud. The scholar is supposed to be a man who has renounced the world. But the world has very seldom seemed more eminently worth renouncing. . . . The Modern Language Association's only object is the accumulation of useless knowledge, and of useless knowledge at least one thing may be said -it never did anyone any harm. . . . Some day when a little child climbs upon your knee to ask: 'Grandpa, what did you do during the Great War?' you are going to be very lucky if you can reply: 'Child, I studied the subjunctive mood...
After three decades of research on the heredity mechanism of the genes and chromosomes he has a strong opinion on the first thing that biology should teach humanity: "All men are created unequal. No politics or poetry or dogma in this; just a straight clean fact of prime importance to decent thinking on human social problems; and possibly a fact that must be learned, digested and assimilated . . . before unreason ceases to be a threat to all forms of democratic government...
Small and stocky, the most arresting thing about him is his speech. He never uses a plain word when there is a fancy one handy. A knife he calls a dirk. Besides giving advice on the air and by mail, the Voice spends about $45,000 a year to provide operations for babies born with harelip or cleft palate, spectacles for myopic children, etc. He also sends boys & girls through college without revealing to them the source of their scholarships, helps unmarried mothers through childbirth...