The North American Review, Band 225University of Northern Iowa, 1928 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... social graces than were given to Tammany Mayors of old . These he has capitalized to his own and his party's advantage . But it is the " wise - crack " that dis- tinguishes him above all else . This is his Excalibur . He relies on it in ...
... social graces than were given to Tammany Mayors of old . These he has capitalized to his own and his party's advantage . But it is the " wise - crack " that dis- tinguishes him above all else . This is his Excalibur . He relies on it in ...
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... Social climbers fail to climb and look doleful . Ladder - of - fame climbers cannot reach the rung on which their heart was set , and life is now " sound and fury , signifying nothing " . No other city has a greater genius for taking ...
... Social climbers fail to climb and look doleful . Ladder - of - fame climbers cannot reach the rung on which their heart was set , and life is now " sound and fury , signifying nothing " . No other city has a greater genius for taking ...
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... social life , or another personality , or the conventional world at large , or any of the other things we have been talking about . Within that zone of action it is very power- ful ; and anything that comes within its periphery , unless ...
... social life , or another personality , or the conventional world at large , or any of the other things we have been talking about . Within that zone of action it is very power- ful ; and anything that comes within its periphery , unless ...
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... social revolt had not then spread throughout the country . I believe it is not claiming too much to say that in the Hall of Fame , through its exaltation of our greatest men and women , a new breakwater has been erected against the ...
... social revolt had not then spread throughout the country . I believe it is not claiming too much to say that in the Hall of Fame , through its exaltation of our greatest men and women , a new breakwater has been erected against the ...
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... social exclusiveness , a label for class distinctions , and finally a bit of political slang , sarcastically applied by those who can see in social contrasts nothing but an unjust distribution of worldly goods . In the staid and honest ...
... social exclusiveness , a label for class distinctions , and finally a bit of political slang , sarcastically applied by those who can see in social contrasts nothing but an unjust distribution of worldly goods . In the staid and honest ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 97 - The heavens declare the glory of God: And the firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge.
Seite 458 - Commission shall as soon as practicable prepare and adopt a plan for the consolidation of the railway properties of the continental United States into a limited number of systems.
Seite 295 - On my honor I will do my best: 1. To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout law. 2. To help other people at all times. 3. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Seite 21 - That when any harbor or other place in the American continents is so situated that the occupation thereof for naval or military purposes might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States, the Government of the United States could not see without grave concern the possession of such harbor or other place by any corporation or association which has such a relation to another Government, not American, as to give that Government practical power of control for naval or military purposes.
Seite 373 - Whoever by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards...
Seite 491 - You may estimate your capacity for Comic perception by being able to detect the ridicule of them you love, without loving them less : and more by being able to see yourself somewhat ridiculous in dear eyes, and accepting the correction their image of you proposes.
Seite 21 - Resolved that when any harbor or other place in the American continents is so situated that the occupation thereof for naval or military purposes might threaten the communications or the safety of the United States, the Government of the United States could not see, without grave concern, the possession of such harbor or other place by any corporation or association which has such a relation to another Government, not American, as to give that Government practical power of control for national purposes.
Seite 4 - I give it as my fixed opinion that but for our graduated cadets the war between the United States and Mexico might and probably would have lasted four or five years with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share ; whereas in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.
Seite 280 - Those refined and gentle manners which are the expression of fixed habits of thought and of action. 3. The power and habit of reflection. 4. The power of intellectual growth. 5. Efficiency, the power to do.
Seite 458 - If after such hearing the Commission finds that the public interest will be promoted by the...