Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snap their fingers, and solemnly declare that they had it on the tips of their tongues. This is just as it should be. ... In the Republics of France and of America the president is of an extrusive kind. His office has been fashioned on the monarchic model and his whole position is anomalous. He has to try to be ornamental as well as useful, a symbol as well as a pivot. Obviously, it is absurd to single out one man as a symbol of the equality of all men. ... In America, where no kings have been, they are able...
That last demand irked General Motors most. It was the key to Walter Reuther's whole subtle strike purpose. What union label would he prefer? The C. I. 0. label, of course. But not all G. M. workers are C. I. 0. unionists by any means. And the split of United Automobile Workers into a C. I. 0. and an A. F. of L. faction occurred after G. M.'s present contract with U. A. W. was negotiated. Walter Reuther, declared the company, was making demands and calling strikes at this critical time simply to clinch the superiority...
When the cars got to Baton Rouge, the whole town turned out to do a little good-natured jeering. Dr. Smith and his wife were whisked to jail (she for abetting his flight), fingerprinted. A delegation of L. S. U. professors was on hand with money to bail out Mrs. Smith, but Dr. Smith refused to be sprung. If he got out of jail in Baton Rouge he would be clapped into jail in New Orleans, where he was wanted for forgery, and Baton Rouge offered him several inducements to stay. He was given a cell with a private bathtub...
...late evening of September 18, the whole imposing edifice collapsed like a circus tent assailed by impatient roustabouts. Japan had detected some reputed Chinese sabotage on the Japanese-controlled South-Manchuria Railroad and Japanese troops marched into Mukden. By the standards of the era which had passed, the world has been haywire ever since...
...most polished, facetious, graceful, whimsical and uproarious, I hereby admit you and your whole crowd of ditto creations to the degree of honorary Doctor of Letters...