Word: tools
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true, it is neither extraordinary nor particularly reprehensible. Many, if not most, Italian singers have paid claques, regardless of how successful they may be. A claque is a sort of musical insurance against an occasional unresponsive audience. Not infrequently it is more a parasite upon an artist than his tool. If there had been Pond's Cold Cream on sale in Troy or Nuxated Iron on Olympus, what is more likely than that Helen and Mars respectively would have availed themselves of these things ? Queen Marie of Rumania uses Pond's Cream (according to advertisements) and Jack Dempsey...
...against closing of Church schools in Alsace-Lorraine, which is still under the old ecueordat in its relations with the Vatican. Anti-Clericals, or men who like Herriot are indifferent to religion as long as it does not interfere with the State, look on the Church as the chief tool of the royalists among the common people. The growth of socialism and communism have gone hand in hand with an increasing distrust of the church, until now the radicals, as a vital wing of the majority coalition, have decided that France shall have no official connection with the Vatican...
...filled with partisan wranglings and Imperial and Republican flags. Monarchists fierily championed the ex-Kaiser or else sadly shook their heads and sighed for "the old days." The Left Parties attacked the ex-Kaiser and his "willing tool" the Luther Government. Many broken heads resulted from many brawls...
Thus ended what has been called "an attempt to make education the tool of politics...
...proclaimed in the Moslem world. Even a "D man" in History 1 recognizes that it was religion that set Europe aflame with hostilities after the Reformation and sent war and misery to the Indian empires of the West. Christianity, like other religions, has all too often become a tool in the hands of the war lords...