Word: arrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page dissent, uncompromising James Marshall, Republican lawyer and former board president, called the majority decision "little less than condoning . . . bigotry. . . ." Said he: May Quinn should have been fired. The New York Herald Tribune seconded him: "So mild a rebuke for such an arrant affront to the cause of mutual self-respect constitutes a grave setback to the cause of tolerance in our public schools...
...London's streets the people quipped: this is "Salute-the-Government-Week." London's press did not like the salute in the House. Said the Observer: "The Prime Minister has seldom acted more unwisely. . . ." New Statesmen & Nation: "Most arrant nonsense. . . ." Time & Tide: "Unfortunate. . . "Daily Mirror: "Parliament might as well go out of business altogether. . . ." Daily Worker: "Now there is a vote of confidence in the House but lack of confidence in the country...
Imagine wasting over a full page on such arrant trash! Who in tarnation cares whether Señor Dali has a secret life or whether he has any life...
...McBride's. Further inquiry revealed that these were not samples of speech from Groton, Nebraska, or even from Brooklyn. "No, they were South American, I think...I can't remember the boys' names; it all happened too fast." A rapid peeling off of the House names revealed that the arrant gentlemen were from Dunster...
...could teach mere boys to understand their Mother Tongue in its greatest period, the late 16th and early 17th centuries, until they were so saturated with it that they could write and even speak Elizabethan English. And in a time when intellectual standards have been slackened, when every arrant sentimentalist can spring a new educational theory and the wine of learning is watered, the austerity of a Kittredge, his snorting contempt for low standards, has been a bracing sea-wind in a hot-house...