Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sake, thus gathering a two-fisted reputation that later scared bookish Critic Ernest Boyd. Nor will they be moved by his version of the long-drawn-out suicide of Harry Crosby, whom he regards as a symbolic figure. But left-wingers will find much to interest them, much to applaud. To plain readers Exile's Return will seem a well-documented, often amusing but essentially serious case history of a minor period, whose importance its author can be pardoned for exaggerating...
...Agin the government'' in every possible way, Heretic Nock makes some general observations that may well shock traditional minds. "A pretty Frenchwoman is worth mention; I never saw more than three that I can remember." Disbelievers in capital punishment will applaud his shrewdness: "When kidnapping was made a capital crime, probably not a single legislator realized that he was voting to put a premium on murder, and to provide a direct encouragement to lynching." A life- long believer in the late Henry George's single tax, he has "never propagandized for it, because our people would...
Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, sailing for Europe, aired his views on nine-year-old Pianist Ruth Slenczynski. "All these public appearances are bad for her. And I told her father so. The audiences applaud even when there are mistakes, and eventually the child will not bother to correct mistakes...
...club has sent letters to undergraduate political organizations in numerous colleges apprising them that the Senate at Washington doesn't seem eager to do anything about the political situation in Louisiana. Now is the time for all good men to applaud the sentiment which animates this pronunciamento. At the same time it may be regretted that the letter was not phrased with that strict regard for dignity and sobriety in expression which is to be expected from young gentlemen who attend classes in English at Harvard. It says, for instance...
...emphasis upon duties against privileges which Mr. Chase makes is his really essential point, and while I wish to criticize it in the matter of contents I wish to applaud its spirit. The spectre of our failure which he raises is a spectre which has proved fatal to societies in the past. We think it has proved fatal partly because education has been inadequate. Mr. Chase makes the mistake of supposing that the teacher he pleads for can fulfill his duties adequately. Neither the good clerks nor Mr. Chase's good teachers have or can have any answers or teaching...