Word: valee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commissioner Wallis, formerly in charge of Ellis Island, agreed with the British Ambassador, saying: " Ellis Island would melt a heart of granite. It is literally a vale of tears...
...patriotic reasons. Any country might be proud to point to him as one of its officials." But Republican Mr. Curran did not treat Democratic Mr. Wallis with equal consideration. He accused the former Commissioner of using his post for political ends and denied that Ellis island was " a vale of tears." Mr. Curran further added that " Americanization " speeches took place in the days when Mr. Wallis was campaigning to become Mayor of New York-that immigrants were herded into the hot sun while Mr. Wallis and his followers addressed them from a shaded spot. One account (not specifically attributed...
ZANDER THE GREAT?Alice Brady plays an engaging foster mother, taking the orphaned Alexander to find his father in Arizona. They encounter instead a " brutal" bootlegger in chaps ? whom the little child leads into a vale of righteous happiness...
ZANDER THE GREAT?Alice Brady plays an engaging foster mother, taking the orphaned Alexander to find his father in Arizona. They encounter instead a "brutal" bootlegger in chaps?whom the little child leads into a vale of righteous happiness...
There is no more tragic phenomenon in this vale of tears than the deliberate perversion of an idea or a philosophy out of its original meaning in order to serve the base purposes of its enemies. Does a Christ preach a creed of peace on earth, good will to men, some Kaiser will pervert his words into " Gott mit Uns." Does a Nietzsche drive himself into madness transvaluing all the moral values, some nimbled-witted George Creel will reduce his works to a cheap credo for footpads. Does a serious-minded Bernard Shaw spend fifty years writing serious plays...