Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hopefully the commander of Nanking's crack soldiers drawing near Sian, General Ku, announced: "Upon entering Sian, I am disposed not to assert authority but only give advice, when asked, for a preliminary period of three months. After that, if conditions have not bettered, I am resolved to take a firm stand...
...assert that the ordinary U. S. citizen grows excited about politics only once every four years and thinks about Government only when his mail goes astray is a trite slur on the national intelligence. Last week vigilant patriots felt reluctantly impelled to believe that there might be some truth in it. Difficult to explain otherwise was the public indifference which greeted President Roosevelt's proposal of the most momentous change in U. S. Government and politics since Andrew Jackson perfected the spoils system. Possibly, however, citizens were simply baffled because the President had packaged his dynamite-a proposal...
...social disadvantages, which she overcomes in the end by returning to marry Rochester. The latter is harder to define and can be interpreted in several ways; essentially, it is woman's struggle in literature to be considered as more than chaste and innocent, as an intelligent person who can assert her independence and act upon her own principles; it is the struggle of the Victorian woman to free herself from tradition, a revolution not completed until the turn of the century...
...white in New York's Harlem and elsewhere. Slick little Father Divine lives well, maintains a Rolls-Royce, flies about in an airplane, provides abundant low-price meals to his followers. But he keeps no books, has never paid an income tax. Leaving it to his followers to assert blandly, that he "manifests" money out of nothing, the black "God" has seemed to take poker-faced delight in evading questions about his income. Since he has a good Negro lawyer, Arthur Madison, Father Divine knows well that he would be in serious trouble with the U. S. Government were...
...young couple invited Shaw to live with them when overwork brought on a breakdown. Says he: "It was probably the happiest passage in our three lives." But soon his Mystic Betrothal began to assert itself. "I had to consummate it or vanish." His friendship with the inoffensive Sparling made the thought of stealing his wife revolting. Nor could the three friends arrange a divorce because Shaw could not afford to marry and Sparling could not afford to be divorced. Moreover, the scandal would have damaged the Cause. Shaw left. To his astonishment Sparling left soon after. May Morris...