Word: anathemae
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...Playwright Coward, War is anathema. The 'closest approach his comedies make to profundity is this philosophy: let us be merry today for yesterday (1914-18) we died. To prove his point he wrote two strongly sentimental dramas. The first, Post Mortem (unproduced), exposes the social dissolution observed by a young ghost who returns from Flanders. The second, Cavalcade, is a tragic cyclorama which begins with the Boer War and ends in 1930 with the hope that "this country of ours may find dignity, greatness, and peace again." Here was something more than the world dared to expect from...
...French aim is to draw Russia out of her former close friendship with Germany, a maneuver made possible by the fact that the Reich now has a "Cabinet of Monocles," extreme reactionaries who are anathema to Communists. France, though no real friend of Russia, hopes to stimulate her trade with the Soviet Union, especially in view of London's trade rebuff to Moscow last week (see p. 15) and at all costs France wants to isolate Germany from Soviet military...
...schedules into effect until after a fulldress debate in the London House of Commons, sitting this week. If he takes part in this debate (necessarily defending his government and the Ottawa agreements) Scot MacDonald will thus signalize his complete and final break with Socialism to which all tariffs are anathema...
...Clutton-Brock has the slightly academic point of view of the illustrious but conservative paper for which he writes. The Baroque is to him anathema; and Boucher, but an insignificant follower of Watteau. Luckily he ends with the nineteenth century. One is frightened at what he would have done with the twentieth. And yet there is some good criticism...
Regarding the "Keep Off the Grass" signs TIME mentioned-Mr. Fleishhacker did not have these removed from Golden Gate Park for the reason that they never existed due to such being an anathema to John MacLaren, who laid out the park and is still, at the age of 84, superintendent of parks. Mr. Herbert Fleishhacker should be commended for the gifts he has made but he should not be credited with large and expensive improvements built with taxpayers' money. In justice to the citizens of San Francisco, I sincerely hope you will print my letter...