Word: anathemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then Henry Louis Mencken must be counted great. In the last ten years his influence has dwindled notably, but to a college generation now growing bald he was the greatest debunker of them all. For his vigorous and vivid style, that sometimes rises to heights of rhetoric and grotesque anathema, he has never been given his due rating, being regarded less as a good and aggressively sensible writer than as a sort of public entertainer with a sleeve-full of uproarious phrases. His bull-roaring denunciations have been returned with interest by many a patriot, professor, politician: he has been...
...Leipzig's famed Trade Fair last week went Reich Air Minister Göring and trainloads of important Army officers, not to gape at sample booths but to pay homage to a small young woman with curly hair and a timid voice. Though women in business are anathema to orthodox Nazis, Fraulein Martha Burger is one they cannot do without. An engineer and steel technician, she has designed a line of bombproof steel houses, and bombproof and gasproof cellars for houses already up, that have withstood dozens of tests from Germany's air force. At Leipzig last week...
...other of D. H. Lawrence's explorations into the libido, "Ecstasy" tells the story of a beautiful young girl in search of an outlet for her emotional cravings. In no sense obscene or pornographic, if treats this study with the frank and simple directness which seems to be anathema to a section of the American mind. Unlike certain of the contemporary dramatists who seem to find frankness synonymous with sordidness it tells its elemental tale with scenic beauty and dramatic vigor. For treatment of such a theme it is artistically essential to develop an intimacy with the heroine's character...
Would appreciate your printing this explanation. I value the friendship of bartenders but do not wish to be anathema to superintendents...
...Anathema to eloquent, high-minded Editor-Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette, is the U. S. newspaper comic strip. He vowed that only "over my dead body" would his newspaper ever print a funnypaper...