Word: anathemae
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Free trade which is Secretary Hull's specialty (and anathema to the Roosevelt Brain Trust) was unanimously endorsed. The Conference adopted by acclaim a resolution presented by Mr. Hull with the statement that ''this proposal calls for no treaties, conventions or legal commitments." It amounted to expression of a wish that American nations should work to make trade free...
...likely they ever will, for they stimulate the creation of small groups with pronounced individualities, and this is anathema at Harvard. This same aversion, in another sphere, caused the radical change in the admissions to the Houses last year. Harvard is not willing to accept the principle, "many are called and few chosen." Outside of History 1 it is not willing to separate the honors students from "the dumb bunnies," the scholars from the social lions and athletes. Thus it will not become an institution for training intellectuals. It insists on catering to the masses; it hopes to convert them...
...deep booming voice which, at crucial moments, rises to a preposterously high pitch. The universal nickname, "Frisky", which ranks with "Copey" and "Kitty" among Harvard's factious sobriquets, has clung to him since his college days, did not spring, as so many think, from his animated platform manner. Anathema to him are hats, newspapers, or sleeping students in the New Lecture Hall just before he begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat, is given to patting people on the back. Meeting J. P. Morgan at a recent Commencement...
...scarcely ignore the greatest power in the Near East, the Union whose strength in the Basin outweighs that of any other nation. Mr. Fish's fear that recognizing Russia may antagonize Japan is not with-out its humor after the stinging rebukes of Mr. Stimson's notes and the anathema pronounced by the League of Nations...
...contributions to last week's Progressive show, crop-headed Ben Bufano presented a 10-ft. fresco of another cowled Franciscan, screaming. It had no official title but to friends he explained that it was "Anathema Against San Francisco...