Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waving a big cigar in his hand): If we were only that strong, we would be very weak indeed. I am very serious about that...
Bodenschatz: Ja, very serious...
Life in The Netherlands Indies is abundant. Dutch colonials grow rich on oil and rubber, fat on Bols gin and rijsttafel ("rice-table," a huge meal which requires a dozen natives to serve). Their activities at clubs are so serious as to be nearer worship than relaxation. The social hierarchy is solid and rigid as a marble staircase. After a party at the Harmonic Club in Batavia, Java, chauffeurs must line cars up according to their masters' standing, so that 20,000-guilders-a-year may drive off before 15,000-guilders-a-year...
...gentlemen who wrote the letter to the Crimson Thursday morning have a concept of democracy which is incredible; it can leave only the impression that they are seeking for a rationalization to justify an attempt to break up a sincere and serious meeting. Surely democracy and freedom of speech do not imply that when a group of people wish to gather together because of a common interest, they must invite all those whom they feel opposed to that interest to join with them and defeat their ends. Last night's meeting was called specifically for those who wished to protest...
...matter for great regret that Harvard students should have come to such a meeting as this for the specific purpose of ridiculing its serious intent. Are they unaware that there is now a war in Europe; that we too are threatened with involvement; that we have but one safeguard in such time of crisis--namely our freedom to hear whom we will, on what we will? Only in this way can the vital decisions which must be made follow from a considered survey of all the issues involved. To deny this is to deny the very basis on which such...