Word: barbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Superstition has it that nuns who break their vows are subjected to ghastly Gothic penalties, such as burial alive in the walls of a monastery. Superstition errs; the apostate nun undergoes no stipulated censure. If she suffers at all it is from the barb of conscience or the irrelevant condemnation of busybodies. Having obtained a dispensation from Rome she may even re-enter the cloister, no matter what prompted her to abscond. Penitent, she is easily forgiven...
Perhaps the sharpest barb yet hurled at the Kellogg Peace Pact came last week from onetime Director Salvador de Madariaga of the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations. Wrote he to the London Times: "It is evident that a state which offers to renounce all but defensive wars (and that is what the American proposal means, despite its, in appearance, unqualified condemnation of war) renounces nothing at all so long as it retains the right to define when it is fighting a defensive...
...competing sections of the country, i.e. to help the West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio coal interests out of the bog into which their labor troubles have thrust them. This the I. C. C. has no power to do, as was sharply suggested by the Senate last month. The barb in the Senate's pending investigation of the I. C. C. (TIME, Feb. 20) is a clause directing the Commissioners to cite statutory authorities for each & every one of their decisions during the past five years wherein "the reasonableness of any rate or rates were in any sense influenced...
...soldiers and bristling with fortifications,--bought with money loaned to them by you and I for the most part, to repair the ravages wrought by other countries in the war. The towns and villages still lie in ruins, but along the entire Poland frontier stretch miles of costly barb wire entanglements through a narrow gap in which the train runs. The Polish side is guarded by a regiment of well uniformed soldiers with their lip sticks and rouged cheeks while on the Russian side there is merely a large wooded arch inscribed with the words Communism destroys frontiers...
...Marriage Whirl. Corinne Griffith has, taken so many thousands on the barb of her attraction that it is doubtless idle to intimate that this adventure is one of the worst of photoplays. It is a story of the younger generation, married and very fond of gin. Great parties in expensive country houses and great scowls on the faces of the stern fathers. Nita Naldi, slimmer these days, is very wicked...