Word: anathemae
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Secretary Hyde's only practical knowledge of farming has come through his personal management of four farms, totaling 710 acres, belonging to his wife. To many a Missouri farmer his name is still anathema because as Governor he put through a road program which earned him the epithet of "tax-eater...
...majority of Professor Babbitt's anathema is heaped upon "the new extensions of the principles of individual choice" and "the allowance of latitude in the individual." To the average reader, the very principle here implied would seem to be one of the strongest signs of health in Harvard at present. It is undoubtedly due to its presence and influence that a member of the faculty has been able so to criticize his university from within its very walls and command attention not wholly condemnatory. Cornell...
That inferiority complex betrayed itself in many New York papers, last week, from parenthetical bad-boy chuckles to grandiose editorial anathema, in stories of a tilt between John Pierpont Morgan and ship-news reporters and cameramen, aboard the Olympic, docking 16 hours late from Southampton...
...Georgia by the Hoover Democrats. Last week Georgia Democrats voted. Governor Lamartine Griffin Hardman, pro-Smith, was renominated comfortably. In the Fifth Congressional District (Atlanta), excitement ensued between Representative Leslie J. Steele and onetime (1919-27) Representative William ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, who sought to "come back'' with Anathema Smith as his one issue. Mr. Upshaw, a cripple with a tireless, high-pitched voice, an extensive Biblical and patriotic vocabulary and a standing offer to use all for the Anti-Saloon League, was comfortably beaten by Mr. Steele...
...your readers that HOOVER hasn't a CHINAMAN'S chance of carrying anything south of the POTOMAC. You know it has "gotten out" that his campaign Manager is named "WORK" and if you tried to run a farm down here you would soon learn that work is anathema to almost the entire population...