Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Senator Blease: "The Civil Service is the most damnable, the most iniquitous system ever perpetrated upon a free country. I believe to the victors belong the spoils. ... If North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Florida want to go Republican, let them have Republican census-takers. ... If that is the company they want to keep and they happen to get up with fleas on 'em, let 'em bite...
...churchgoers of Tiomne do not belong to Russia's Greek Orthodox Church. They are "Johnists," followers of John Kronstadsky, an obscure ecstatic whose chief tenet was that life is intolerable in this worst of all possible worlds, and that the coming of the Soviet was God's punishment for the sins of this world...
...Madame Grill. But, my dear Bella, your husband is after all not a man of that sort. . . . You are the Baroness von Buttlär and I am the widow of General von Palikow. Well, doesn't that mean that we are two fortresses to which people who don't belong to us have no entree? . . . We simply issue a decree?and Madame Grill ceases to exist...
Somehow there seems to be something wrong with attributing Harvard's "greatness" to a preoccupation with sartorial expertness and a will to "belong". Most of the current criticism in regard to this institution centers around its familiar indifference to the press of the trousers or the shine on the shoes. It is true that a large number of men do shave daily but it is hardly to this that they owe the remarkable front which has apparently enabled them to get away with murder for the past three hundred years. To become really serious about the matter, however...
...want to preach to you the gospel of being a snob--not allowing yourself to drop in speech, manners and general intelligence, and going to the level of the crowd that hasn't had the opportunities you have had. Belong to the crowd that does belong, or to the crowd that doesn't belong? That's the question...