Word: apologist
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...barrooms. Nevertheless, we have read a couple of the recent essays tossed off by Mr. DeCasseres in which he qualifies as a literary man by telling how well he knew, the literary big-shots, and we jump with astonishment at the suggestion that he is in any way an apologist for "our institutions." We understood from him that the institutions of this nation of Philistines were beneath his contempt. He made us certain of it, because he had read Nietzsche and "comparative history," whatever that...
...burial service for the hero, a director's stunt devised not only to rob the audience of its just reward but to rehabilitate and glorify the old-time cut back under the banner "Narratage," "Narratage," however, is more than stunt; it is a diabolical infliction. Henry, Caspar Milquetoast apologist to Mr. Tom Garner, explains to his wife that Tom Garner explains to his wife that Tom Garner was more than a Legree, more than the faithless, cruci, relentless devil, whose feet the world licked, whose name the world cursed. And where Henry's spirit listeth the camera follows, watching urchin...
...cinemactor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Although acquitted of manslaughter after the death of one Virginia Rappe eleven years ago, the malodorous evidence brought out at the trial dropped him to obscurity; resulted in the appointment of President Harding's Postmaster General Will H. Hays as public apologist for Hollywood. Died, Albert Russel Erskine, 62, president of Studebaker Corp.; by his own hand (pistol); in South Bend. Alabama-born, he quit school at 16, turned bookkeeper, climbed to fame up the long ladder of accountancy. As head auditor of American Cotton Co., he got his big chance when...
...from being an apologist for eastern methods, Mr. Tunis offers for examination two educational systems exactly opposite in their ideals. By his juxtaposition and treatment of his subjects he intimates that one is as undesirable as the other, that the ideal university should not be characterized either by scholasticism or by modernism alone, but by a close correlation of the two. He adds weight to the recent lament of John Erskine in the "American Scholar" that colleges make no attempt to vitalize their inanimate culture with injections of modernity...
...Reno's clergy organized against the new régime? Some oppose it, but hope lessly. One apologist for it is Rev. Dr. Alfred J. Case, Methodist pastor who lent his pulpit to Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts during his campaign for re-election last March. Recalling that Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals had called Reno a "compound of Sodom, Gomorrah and perdition," Dr. Case said that Reno's churches were wellattended, that the community in general was suffering no bad effects...