Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...action of the A. S. U. O. is reminiscent of the appeal to the press made by Mr. Coolidge on the first of January, in it the President urged that the gentlemen of the press cease to criticize the administration in its Latin-American policy, and condemned such action as injurious. The absurdity of such an attempt to muzzle the press was patent from the start...
...interview, Edouard Champion, French publisher who gave four lectures at Harvard last December, gives several interesting reactions to American people and institutions in general and Harvard University in particular. The interview, which was written by Pierre Langaree, was printed in L'Action Francaise of February 3. The translation of M. Champion's impressions follows...
American suffragists have for a long time ridiculed the action of porliament in withholding the vote from women until they are thirty years of age. But in England the flapper is at a mile stone. In his last campaign Mr. Stanley Baldwin promised suffrage equality to the young women. Bearing the next election in mind, he must choose either the threatened fury of his ultra-conservative supporters or the more terrifying resentment of some millions of women in England who already have the vote by virtue of their being over thirty years...
...absolutely unanimous condemnation of the West Chester head's action and attitude which the press has offered is a hopeful indication. It is possible that the right of free speech may have to be ingrafted into the educational system by external sources. Public opinion is turning and with it must turn the iron schoolmasters. Even the most opiniated authorities may credit some weight to the statement of such men as Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York who says, regarding the affair that he ". . deplores such attacks, whether by the American Legion or any other patriotic organization, which...
...such changes as these are only superficial; they make the poem structurally more successful and plot more clear--they do not mark the fundamental difference between Mr. Robinson and his predecessors. Both Malory and the earlier writers tell the story in terms of action; Mr. Robinson in terms of reflection. What they describe, he attempts to explain. In a word, his characters are self-conscious, fully aware of their situation and continually discussing it (the greater part of the poem consists of conversation) they are not the "possessed" lovers, consumed by a passion they do not attempt to understand...