Word: bogeying
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...first thing you know, union is simply a ratification of a condition that already exists." Dr. Mary Emma Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College, delegate to last year's stalled Disarmament Conference, spoke on "The Church and World Peace." The Federal Council blenched a bit when its old bogey, Birth Control, bobbed up in a committee report, revised during the past four years, on Social Ideals. One passage favored repeal of legislation against "physicians and other qualified persons" disseminating contraceptive information. Another passage said guardedly that the subject should be "re-examined dispassionately." Presbyterian Rev. Dr. David de Forest Burrell...
...Statisticians burrowed into their records and announced that the price was the lowest recorded since 1852, four years after the Board of Trade was founded. Viewing the estimated North American surplus of 700,000,000 bu., economists predicted still lower prices. Where once $1 wheat was a bogey, 40? wheat seemed now a plain probability...
...Spain is a lay state, that religious education will be abolished, a new law of religious congregations passed, and Article 26 of the Constitution, against religious orders, strictly enforced.) "Papalism" helped make bullnecked Plutarco Elias Calles Mexico's boss. Many another politician now employs it as a handy bogey. Most Mexican ladies (voteless) are pious and good. So are Mexico's straw-hatted peasants, although even Pius XI may not be sure what antique pagan notions linger in their Catholicism. But the men who run things are noisily, bombastically antireligious. Prompt and bellicose was the retort last week...
...unto himself, doing what he thinks will make for his own individual happiness. What kind of country would we have if this were done?" So last week spoke a New York lady whom everyone knew to be as good as she is rich. She was flaying that horrid bogey, ATHEISM. If there was any apparent incongruity in her denunciation of a "law-unto-oneself." it was because she was Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard, favorite daughter of that prodigious, puny, black-bearded buccaneer, the late Jay Gould, who made a fortune, knew no law. But there was no incongruity...
...songs tell stories. There was one last week in which a French husband glowered and raged at his simpering, deceitful wife. There was an arrangement of the Erlkonig which Goethe and the Kapellmeister Reichardt made for Goethe's cook. Tarasova sang it swaying eerily, perfectly depicting the bogey which haunted the child's delirium. The mechanics of such singing is secondary to the fact that words & music are ideally blended. Sometimes Tarasova's natural voice has a smooth cello quality, but she is versatile. She whispers when the mood requires it or she is a baritone fairly...