Word: tracing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Without doubt the most honest, sincere and unbiased criticism of the New Deal heard in this country came from the lips of ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith speaking before the Liberty League in New York Saturday night. With no trace of personal bitterness or ravings, but with fairness and in plain terms, did the nation's leading "conservative Democrat" call the administration to task for its neglected party pledges and its wanderings from the paths of constitutionality. An especial tribute to Mr. Smith's sincerity of purpose is the fact that the Liberty League, at first evidently affected...
...year hence, ten years hence, perhaps 50 years hence, some one will trace the newer methods of medicine back to this meeting, perhaps to some seemingly insignificant announcement which even during these days may escape our immediate attention, but which the future history of science will reveal as profoundly influential in the destinies of mankind...
...York Timesman Charles A. Selden who cabled from London thus: "Anybody who went to the Commons expecting to hear reproaches and recriminations between Sir Samuel Hoare on the one hand and Mr. Baldwin and other members of the Cabinet on the other was disappointed. There was not a trace of bitterness on either side. The atmosphere was so much the other way that surprised members in the lobby after Sir Samuel, Mr. Baldwin and Sir Austen Chamberlain had finished their speeches wondered if the Cabinet break had not been a sham battle or at least an arranged episode to serve...
Benin today is part of British Nigeria, a prosperous city of 35,000 blacks with paved highways and scarcely a trace of the old City of Blood. Under British guidance a king still rules there. Though he affects the coral headdress of his ancestors and a curved executioner's sword still precedes him wherever he goes, he wears gold-rimmed spectacles, speaks with an Oxford accent, and was discovered last year seated in a rocking chair, reading Lord Chesterfield's Letters...
...emotions of the hand that strikes it." Thus the intellectual conflicts of his time moved him as other men are moved by pain or fear, compelled him to state simple, fundamental truths, although he suffered the torments of the damned in doing so. Remaining ten essays in the volume trace the Rousseau tradition through the careers of Restif de la Bretonne, Alexandre de Tilly, Hugo and others to its modern representative in Marcel Proust. Restif, "the gutter Rousseau," wrote the 18th Century equivalent of True Confession stories, carried Rousseau's ideas to the logical absurdity of idealizing prostitution...