Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Real as it was to old Mr. Green, the A.F. of L.'s action seemed strangely unreal. The Mine Workers had already read themselves out, as even the ouster resolution noted. Nor was it explained why of all C.I.O. unions the ax had fallen on the Flat Glass Workers and the Smelters, both relatively unimportant. Logical union to go and the one expected to go was Sidney Hillman's big Amalgamated Clothing Workers. But whatever the strategy may have been one thing was sure: it was not in the interests of labor peace...
...evasion which is supposed to be immoral" until after a long legal battle. Rich men have split their personalities by setting up alter egos in the form of corporations and creating losses in some to balance profits in others. "These transactions," said he, "partake of the same unreal character as if a small taxpayer incorporated his household kitchen as a restaurant and deducted his expenses and losses from his taxable income because he has so few customers...
...Spanish politics, Paul's sympathies were all to the Left, but he had good friends on the Right as well. He mourns equally over them all: "In all Iviza's 6,000 years the watchers on her hills saw no stranger sights than I did, nothing more unreal, more unexpected. . . . Nineteen thirty-six, take your place in the corridor of bloody years! Be proud, if you can, of what you have evoked and produced and spilt...
...shown, not so clearly as might have been that the reason is imperialist. Empire is to advance, a tribal nation is to be suppressed as the part of a programme. All the subsidiary characters are caricatures of English upper class types: there is the inevitable newspaper magnate, a very unreal person despite his peerage and suggested kinship to Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook. Because the characters do not convince the reader of their realty, the play fails to come to life, and one's memory of it is likely to be confined to certain passages good for declaiming at verse-speaking...
...back of his mind. Mr. Clark was somewhat awed to sea the new Building, erected in 1916. Walking slowly up the stairs to the sanctum, leaning hard on an old came, black hat in hand, and white hair falling easily on his fore head, all seemed quite unreal. But then the sight of an old picture of the Board, done in 1874, brought things to right Here were Sam, Charlie, and Ed. who had died in this year and that before and since...