Word: downtrodden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President then replied: "A new era of justice is dawning for Mexican workers, who have been oppressed for centuries. The Governments of Russia and Mexico have similar ideals-the uplifting of downtrodden classes and the betterment of the masses...
...much downtrodden. Of the 220-odd million feet in the U. S., ten million of them daily step on his face. For his features are still printed on the soles of his countrymen, although W. L. Douglas is dead...
...Rendezvous. So flamboyant was the melodrama of this singular narrative of the downtrodden royal party of Russia that certain commentators took it to be satire...
...little box of poison and a desert with a prowling lion-and none of it matters very much. Except when Pola appears. Daddy. A blatant assault upon the lachrymal glands, with a few snatches of inimitable comedy by young Mr. Coogan. He is, as you may have guessed, a downtrodden little boy-violinist in search of his long-lost daddy, and oh what a pathetic time he does have! Financially the picture should be a regular rhinestonemine. We suggest as its logical successor Old Curiosity Shop, with Jackie as Little Nell. Prodigal Daughters, Two young daughters of a rich papa...
...which are long overdue. Let us hope that our sporting instinct in this case will not push us to actions which would cause unlimited trouble for ourselves and for other nations in the future. In 1914 our sporting instinct was not strong enough to make us side with a downtrodden nation with which every principle of honor and justice had been violated, and now in 1923 our principles of justice are appealed to. To prevent a conquering but suffering nation to obtain her nightful indemnities...