Word: partisans
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...since Victor Hugo has any writer exerted a more profound influence upon the thought and writing of his time. Unlike Hugo, however, Anatole France stands not in the role of magi, pointing the way that to others lies hidden. His delight was the unrestrained play of ideas. Not partisan, except in the larger service of Truth, he loved to stand aside and give every idea its inning, while with characteristic French humor he poked fun at them all. Stimulating and suggestive to individual thought, he was a true reflection of his age, and his age in turn...
...these men come to the CRIMSON office between 3 and 4 o'clock any afternoon for the next week they will be told how to avail themselves of the absentee voter's privileges, no matter what state they live in. These office hours are being conducted by a non-partisan committee...
Political wrangling at Harvard is no sudden by product of these disordered days, but has a long genealogy, embedded in traditional demonstrations, surrounded by anecdotes at least interesting if not true. CRIMSON files for years long since passed into the anonymous classification of "the days when" reveal an astouding partisan spirit, an intense and furious interest in all things political...
...provide a commission to adjust the boundary between Ulster and the Free State. The Conservatives hoped to force the resignation of Premier MacDonald's government, and the overwhelming acceptance of this bill shows that the Irish question has at last been removed at least from the vicissitudes of partisan politics. Parliament has found a unified course, a fixed attitude which England will hold vis-a-vis with her new dominion...
...speakers will be sent up from the New York headquarters, and a great many Republicans who are unwilling to sanction the vigorous activity along certain lines and the total inaction in other more important matters of the present administration will be able to join the club as non-partisan supporters of Mr. Davis...