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a popular reformer or politician or soldier
But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

and peaceful rendezvous of persons of social
The missions too, were the centers of important gatherings and peaceful rendezvous of persons of social standing, even after the first two Acts of Secularization had been passed in after years.
— from Chimes of Mission Bells; an historical sketch of California and her missions by Maria Antonia Field

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