Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles MacArthur," mother of two."* She recalled her grandmother's stories about eight brothers & sisters around the family dinner table. "I remember that there was always room for one more. There is always room for one more†ones who have no room elsewhere." Mother MacArthur clinched her argument by saying she would gladly adopt a child sight unseen,† if assured it was not mentally defective. Said she poignantly: "I never saw my own child until he was placed in my arms after he was delivered...
...article in this week's Nation, was quietly squelched by its professed friends after Grover Whalen had promised it a site-an incident that aroused bitter resentment in many a Manhattan liberal. When the art world frothed because there was no art exhibit at the fair (the original argument was that all art shown would be a functional part of the exhibits), President Whalen gracefully gave in, arranged a substantial gallery. There have been complaints of discrimination against Negroes, Civil Service men and veterans. And there have been the customary charges of graft...
...inferior to the "cram-school" instructional staff which is able to put the organization over. If such superiority were real it would seem incredible that the University Corporation should have ignored such talent sitting, as it were, on their very door step, while hiring the alleged incompetents. The argument, therefore, is ridiculous...
Probably for many readers the most interesting item on this varied bill of fare will be the apologia for Japan offered by Mr. Yakichiro Suma of the Japanese Embassy in Washington. Mr. Suma presents a defense which is at once a cleverly wrought argument and an interesting indication of the official Japanese attitude...
...leading article by Porter Sargent emphasizing, which may possibly be worth doing, the commercial and reactionary character of the revival in recent decades of academic ritual, diploma fetichism, etc. Mr. Sargent swells his argument with some anthropological and Veblenist observations that need not be taken too seriously. The verse in this issue is good, particularly a lyric evidence of Marvin Barrett's remarkable feeling for phrase and imagery. In David Parry's translation--at least it says it is--from the Welsh, the orthography is antique, with u in place of v and vice versa. Elsewhere in the issue...