Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many persons credit it. Let Arthur William Row name the father of Ellen Terry's children, if he can. If it is difficult to name the father of a lady's children, it is equally difficult to estimate posthumously her detestations. It is certain that Ellen Terry, toward the end of her life, sent messages of felicitation to U. S. admirers. Those, however, who knew her well acknowledge that she cherished a perhaps well-merited resentment against U. S. theatre-goers. This resentment has been recorded in journals or elsewhere...
Certainly this view is strengthened by the peculiar attitude of Socialist-Novelist Mussolini toward the mob which he raises against Claudia the courtesan. The mob, he declares, "represented the poorest classes, excitable, impulsive, sentimental. They are the classes which patiently endure economic slavery without protest and then burst into revolt over some moral issue...
...word, the attitude of Benito Mussolini at 26 toward "the people" was as scornful, as sneeringly paternalistic and as essentially Fascist as is his attitude today. The conclusion is attractive and difficult to resist that the Man of Destiny "used" and even "espoused" Socialism, just as he has Roman Catholicism, solely as a means to his unswerving and consistent ends: Power & Paternalism...
...Holiness recommends the Bishops . . . to organize and develop Catholic action in order that the Catholic faithful of both sexes and especially the dear youth, may with prayer and good works contribute toward the peace, social well-being and greatness of their country...
...later the steamer Aztec sighted them progressing mysteriously northwards, 463 miles north of the Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec. Manifestly they either were lost or deliberately returning toward Europe. Near Cape Finisterre, clogging in a gasoline feed pipe forced them to descend, the impact smashing the plane's wings. The duo, swimming near the disabled plane, were immediately rescued by the crew of the Samos. They had described a giant arc over the Atlantic; with a minimum...