Word: abjected
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...nation in the 20th Century bigger than Albania or Serbia ever turn in an abject apology on demand to another within 24 hours before...
...given as a part of the Boston Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant praise. In the orchestra are no violins, violas or clarinets but five flutes, many other wind instruments, drums, two pianos and a harp. Bostonians, though for the most part baffled by Stravinsky's new designs, sensed their importance, wanted another hearing. More immediate was Boston...
...famed. The robbery was kept secret for two days, though private apology was made by the Government to Mr. Dewey. On the third day the story leaked out, and in pompous full dress a whole troop of high officials arrived at Mr. Dewey's hotel to make official, abject apology, promise vengeance, restitution...
...Chinese employes of the C. E. R. went on strike, claiming that vigorous Comrade Rudy had unjustifiably discharged 300 Chinese machinists. In Nanking, officials of the Nationalist Government examined minutely the wording of the Khabarovsk Treaty, started angrily at the number of concessions to Russia to which abject Manchurians had agreed announced that they would not ratify the Chino-Soviet Treaty, summoned placid Mr. Mo for a good talking...
...play . . . glorifies . . . an abject code of morals." With this comment did Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols of Boston recently forbid the Theatre Guild to present Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude in his city. Once again Bostonians applauded or flayed their potent, often-evidenced municipal censorship...