Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sunday a lunatic went to the window with his rifle and killed his neighbor...
...holiness completely. The child of .sacrifice was born, and then the end came an end too odd and unexpected for us to reveal here. Suffice it to say that it taught Florian that the great law of living is "thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor" and that wisdom lies in submission, without demanding of this life too much of beauty or holiness...
America's manner of acquiring the Panama Canal Zone has helped to make South American states suspicious of an expanding northern neighbor, and as a result, trade has declined. With the changed conditions it is highly expedient that the United States once more make clear her relations to her southern neighbors. Two courses lie open: either to assert baldly a policy of maintaining peace in South America or to treat them as "grown up sisters". Perhaps the latter plan would prove less troublesome. At any rate a new definition of relations is necessary...
...Percy Sykes is perhaps the greatest living authority on Persia. From 1888 to the close of the World War he was in Persia or its neighbor, India, engaged in British army work and in the study of the country...
...Nashville woman is reported to have slain her seat-neighbor in a movietheatre for reading the sub-titles out loud. Enduring the unpleasant interruption as long as she was able, she must finally have given way to "that uncontrollable impulse" and have imposed summary justice upon the offender. And "justice" of a kind it certainly was, for another movie-goer in another part of the country was fined severely some time ago for this same offence which brought about the demise of the first Nachville woman...