Search Details

Word: banishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Many were the Pre-Raphaelitish extracurricular activities. They published a short-lived magazine, Germ. They were charter readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: P.R.B. | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...friend of William Hartman Woodin, and Elbert G. Bennett, banker of Ogden, Utah. These announcements the polite bankers applauded. And they listened politely when Comptroller O'Connor told them: ''Every depositor has a right to his money. This law makes the theory a fact. It will banish fear in every banker's mind of runs upon his bank. ... Is there any depositor who would not accept one-half of 1% less interest and know his deposit was insured? ... It is my firm opinion that the insurance feature of the law will save millions to our people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bankers Without Fun | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...other spineless creatures who make compromises, start conflicts. Let the Church keep the bars up and avoid trouble. Intercommunion would ''make the Episcopal household of faith a cafeteria." Said he: "If such practices are persisted in, I should feel it my duty as a bishop to banish and drive away from the church such practices as erroneous and contrary to God's word and destructive to the faith as this church has received the same." Newshawks hastily headlined that a split was looming in the Episcopal Church. But churchmen thought not-not in the urbane organization which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cafeteria | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

...proposing to banish the practice of athletic scholarships by removing the guilty colleges from its list of approved institutions of learning in this section, the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education has done little more than register its appreciation of a fact: it has certainly not discovered the remedy for the situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...readers of whatever kind: "Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Woolf, Woolf | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next