Word: yeas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...searing cynicism of their rendition of the martial hymn, there is somehow a terrible heroism. And the theme of the play, if we may be allowed to extract it out of the molten swirl of observations on Communism, Fascism, the League of Nations, Germany, Italy, England, the Middle West, yea-man hot stuff, is that men, despite the foul mess they kick up now and then, are essentially decent animals, except for one percent consisting of such specimens as international munitions-makers...
...ballot. Rare was the voter who knew why it was there. It was not mentioned in any political platform. Candidates generally ignored it in their speeches. No civic agency seemed greatly interested in its passage or defeat. Nevertheless, when the ballots were counted it was found that millions of yea-saying New Yorkers had voted Yes on the convention proposal, overwhelmingly recorded themselves in favor of doing something about their Constitution, although nobody had suggested what. The convention is scheduled to open on the first Tuesday of April...
...Yea, though I walk through the valley of depression, I will fear no evil: for F. D. R. art with me; thy PWA and thy WPA they comfort...
...Yea!" roared the crowd in ecstasy...
...desperate yea-sayer but a romantic for all that, it is still for him a matter of poetic note that...