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Updated: June 23, 2025
There was also a widespread interest in "politics," by which was meant the particular fads cherished by one's own caucus to the exclusion of the nation's affairs, it being more or less understood that the army, the navy, and foreign policy were not to be made political questions.
You had a world of light and frivolous women to choose from, your own kind of women who could dance and fritter life away in following fads that make for license but you must come into the household of a man who has tried to fight God's battles; standing against these encroachments of Satan which you advocate and beguile my only daughter into telling me that I must choose between surrender or the wretchedness of ending my life in deserted loneliness."
I want a body whose teaching is far above the fads of the moment, goes straight on even when the government is asleep, and whose administration and statutes become so national that one can never lightly resolve to meddle with them.... There will never be fixity in politics if there is not a teaching body with fixed principles.
People nowadays were too busy busy with reforms and "movements," with fads and fetishes and frivolities to bother much about their neighbours. And of what account was anybody's past, in the huge kaleidoscope where all the social atoms spun around on the same plane?
Not because our people are ignorant and ungrateful, as you always explained it to yourself, but because in all your fads, if you'll excuse the word, there wasn't a ha'p'orth of love and kindness!
If such were the rule, only those men who are of the people when they are first placed in public office, and who keep close to the people ever after, would be elected to anything. Such a method, too, would insure a steadier current of national policy, subject to fewer variations. There would not be so many fads to deflect sound and sane statesmanship.
In Boston they are planning neighborhood entertainment as a proper function of the school. Here we shall find for both school and settlement their proper places with one swoop. The kindergarten, manual training, and the cooking school, all experiments in their day, cried out as fads by some, have brought common sense in their train.
She apparently regarded the magazine as one of her husband's fads, an incident of his wealth, like a shooting-box or a racing stable or a philanthropy. It gave prestige. "I've got Clive Reinhard," she announced, as they started from the station, a note of triumph in her languid voice. "My, but he's popular. I've tried to get him for a month.
Of Lingard, with whom he had only been a short time having been picked up in Madras Roads out of a home ship, which he had to leave after a thumping row with the master he generally approved, although he recognized with regret that this man, like most others, had some absurd fads; he defined them as "bottom-upwards notions."
It would tell the complete story of all the darned fool fads that American women have been up to for twenty years." But foolish soever, Mrs. Budlong was fair. A keen sense of sportsmanship led her to give full notice to such people as she planned to honor with her gifts.
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