Word: applauding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...allied to the former regime....Mexico's "New Deal" may not be to the liking of all good churchmen, but as one who planned to give a life of service to Mexico in behalf of religion, and who was prevented from so doing by the present government, I applaud the action of the Revolutionists in the attempt to banish foreign representatives of foreign religion, both Protestant and Catholic...
...their own country (England) have already damned them as bumptious poetasters. To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible. But youthful amateurs of poetry will con them with interest, sometimes with enthusiasm. Their elders will not be quick to applaud either their language or their sentiments: both grate harshly...
...follows them to a theatre, watches them drive off together in a taxi. When she comes back for the second time after a Paris jaunt with his fellow medical student (Reginald Denny), she moves into Philip's rooms. Audiences in Manhattan last week were sufficiently impressed to applaud when Philip finally finds Mildred horrible enough to say calmly: "You disgust me!" Enraged, Mildred screams abuse at Philip, ends with the most dreadful insult she can think of: "You cripple!" If the final sequences showing Philip becoming engaged to a decent wholesome girl suggest the standard pattern of a happy...
...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...