Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bribery is easy enough to resist, threats it is a pleasure to defy, but the influence of friendships, of social connections with officials, or party associations, remains a daily problem for the newspaper man. Inevitably he comes into intimate personal contact with political leaders and men of affairs and relationships of confidence and sympathy grow up which it is difficult and often extremely embarrassing to disregard. It may be easier to defy a corporation than a golfing partner at the country club...
...international intrigue, later 20th century, Author Richard Keverne poaches on E. Phillips Oppenheim's preserves. Mystery runs so high, so thick, so fast, that it is guaranteed by a sealed ending?money back if you can resist breaking the seal of The Havering Plot (Harper...
...president of the Los Angeles Civic Grand Opera Company. In a letter to the Staatsoper, he explained that, ever since seeing Soprano Maria Jeritza last spring in Vienna in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West, he had been disturbed by inaccuracies in her costume and unable to resist sending a genuine...
Significance. The House showed a strong and unprecedented inclination to resist the dictates of the Anti-Saloon League on prohibition legislation. Beneath the parliamentary complications of the issue and the veneer of fiscal concern about the Budget system seemed to lie a tendency, even among ardent drys, to follow the commands of the new Administration and pursue moderate, middle-of-the-road enforcement?in other words, to continue the farce with politic solemnity and let Mr. Hoover proceed "constructively" with the "experiment . . . noble in motive...
...Wells and Bertrand Russell, seeing everywhere harbingers of Western obsolescence, nevertheless resist this unpleasant evidence with faith in the perpetual constructive force of human will & intellect. Oswald Spengler of Munich scorns such precarious optimism as only another instance of the pathetic pride which Romans, Egyptians and Orientals felt at the height of their refulgence...