Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...possible that the lessons obvious- ly enforced by our own history, end, above all, by the recent lamentable breakdown of the European system of military preparedness and armed alliances, should be so completely lost sight of, as is suggested by this proposal to overturn American ideals--to depart from the traditional American policy, as President Nicholas Murray Butler has said, "in the face of the most impressive and emphatic lesson that history records that the traditional American policy has been right"? The advocates of this program of military defence seem wholly to overlook the fact that our national security...
...worshipper of her uncle, the boss Dan Magee, who seems so strong and generous; and only gradually she comes to suspect that the system he personifies is corrupt. Nor does she gain an easy victory over him; indeed, at the end of the play, she herself realizes that to overturn a power rooted in the craven nature of the people, is a work of incalculable slowness. Magee, too, is a complex character, in whom sincerity and trickery are mingled in a very natural manner. The story of the struggle between these two, quite apart from its political significance, is interesting...