Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...prestige when its chief exponent deserted it for avowedly materialistic, selfish reasons? But we shall some day learn our lesson, when we come to realize that whatever affects the world peace affects us. May we never have to learn this again by being dragged into a world-war! But find it out, we will. Then, in spite of our Lodges and Borahs and the drivel of "button-hole patriots," we shall adopt a position of which our national dignity need no longer be ashamed...
...utterly unable to comprehend that which is distant from it, or is inevitably forgetful of that which one was reality. You will be strong, indeed if you can leave America without feeling a cold gripping of your heart and a blatant clatter ringing in your ears. I should find it very hard to read such words as yours to our public, and so it is that I write you as one who knows and feels them deeply...
...Communism, or anything else he pleases, if he proposes to reach his goal through lawfully prescribed legislative action. But when a few thousand radical extremists, most of them non-citizens, plot to overthrow the government and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat through murder and direct action, they will find against them 99 percent of the American people, solidified by a common will for law and order...
...cure that he recommends consists in smiling and in a cultivation of a sense of humor. He evidently takes little stock in the attitude of his former companion, M. Clemenceau, who is reported to have said that he was tired of the human race, and hoped in Egypt to find more congenial friends among the mummies. Certainly, if Premier Nitti advice were followed, many of our present difficulties would soon disappear. Life would be much easier if we could all recognize a joke when we saw it, even it were officially classed as an "international problem" or a "grave symptom...
...undergraduate who has struggled through the spring performances of the Pudding and the Pi Eta without getting any satisfactory reaction from a deep voiced line of pesudo chorines will find in the new Vincent Club presentation of "Satni" at the Wilbur an amateur theatrical which it is a privilege and a joy to watch. It is a true privilege and a joy to watch. It is a true privilege, too, for until this year Vincent shows have been more strictly taboo for men than any Sultan's harem; it is to be hoped that the ban, once lifted, will...