Word: setbacks
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...that the Revolution was only saved from being an abortive rebellion by two factors . . . one the character of Washington, and the other the marshaling against England of European powers." Many of the "best people" were Tories: "from eighty to a hundred thousand left their native colonies"-a considerable setback, thinks Adams, for U. S. civilization. But Washington was wary of democracy and most other aristocrats of the Revolution did not believe in it; it was Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of Independence. "Hamilton stood for strength, wealth, and power; Jefferson for the American dream...
...last ten years Adams says: "Our present decade . . . might be described succinctly by saying that Harding had to liquidate the War; Coolidge had quietly to liquidate the scandals of the Harding regime; and Hoover is now watching the liquidation of 'Coolidge prosperity.' " The War was a calamitous setback to the U. S. Dream. "The prospect is discouraging today, but not hopeless. . . . We have a long and arduous road to travel if we are to realize our American dream in the life of our nation, but if we fail, there is nothing left but the old eternal round...
...Vatican kept a patient silence except to say it felt Spain's revolution was a "setback...
This view was doubly significant because Councilor Goerke was speaking not only of the insurrection in Berlin but also of a simultaneous Fascist setback in Thuringia. The reason why Leader Hitler was at Weimar last week, instead of at Munich, his usual headquarters, was a Socialist-Fascist tug of war in the Thuringian Diet...
Ethel Barrymore has had trying times before. Fitted by appearance and temperament to play drawing room drama, almost every time she has attempted something more pretentious she has met with a setback, e. g.: The Shadow (1915), Rose Bernd (1922), Romeo & Juliet (1922), The Kingdom of God (1928). Even a Barrymore can fail, critics remembered, when Scarlet Sister Mary opened in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 22. Up to last week the closest she had gotten to Manhattan was Washington...