Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surgeons were truly impersonal (or, one might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go to the considerable trouble and risk of using their knives to remove the malignant growths in the body of civilization. They would always find comfortable refuge behind that ancient question, "Am I my brother's keeper...
Twenty years ago the Women's Christian Temperance Union and their fellow fighters had the satisfaction of seeing the U. S., preoccupied with the effects of World War I, vote liquor out. Liquor came in again almost 15 years later, but the W.C.T.U. was only momentarily daunted. Meeting in annual convention in Rochester, N. Y., last week, during World War II, 1,700 temperate Christian delegates heard President Ida B. Wise Smith proclaim that "there is no doubt prohibition will return-the only question is when." The W.C.T.U. wants prohibition or nothing. Says Mrs. Ella Boole, world president...
Addressing his cheering fellow-veterans, he said, "As your national commander I pledge myself to go from this convention and make known to our fellow-citizens your mandate to keep our nation out of any armed conflict overseas. . . . Attempting to cloak our neutrality with a biased belligerency must inevitably lead us straight into...
Since the Hitler-Stalin pact, U. S. fellow travelers have fallen away in droves, but the Communist rank & file has hung on through every swing toward Hitlerism. Pondering these tenacious loyalists, a writer in the pinko Nation last week observed: "Genuinely perturbed by the defections around them, they calmly recite Lenin's prophecy: When the locomotive of history takes a sharp turn, only the steadfast cling to the train...
...After a transcontinental train trip in 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson (his fellow travelers called him "Shakespeare") tells what it was like to sleep on a board stretched between two seats, to wash in a tin dish on the car's windy platform...