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Word: anathemas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/23/1932 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1932 | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...Geneva the Disarmament Conference remained deadlocked upon Premier Tardieu's plan to equip the League of Nations with an international police force- a plan anathema to President Hoover, as everyone knows. Therefore knowing Swiss pulled long faces, called Delegate Stimson "the American Undertaker come to bury the Disarmament Conference." But Chief U.S. Delegate Hugh Gibson had presented to the Conference last week a spirited rehash of the "real disarmament" which President Hoover would like to see achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stimson Musee | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...which may be annulled and from those marriages which may be dissolved by a decree of divorce. In other words California does so mind these unions of Negro and white that she places them in the category of those which are against her public policy and which are therefore anathema. AUBRY MILLER Los Angeles, Calif. ... It is hardly sportsmanlike for you to say that California "does not mind" when, in fact, it has, as you could easily ascertain, a law on miscegenation. Section 60 of the California Civil Code says: "All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mongolians or Mulattoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Tariffs of any kind are anathema to a Socialist. Squarely last week the harassed Prime Minister had to answer to himself: "Am I still a Socialist? Am I still a Laborite? Am I anything that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: 'National Fight? | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

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