Word: brickbatting
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...living Sphinx of the Netherlands, crop-haired, eagle-beaked Premier Hendrik Colijn has brought Her Majesty's Government unscathed through Communist brickbat assaults and the worst of Depression only to face last week the "Dutch Nazis." For stanch old Dr. Colijn it was exquisitely embarrassing to have to explain to his strong-minded Queen, Nazi-contemptuous Wilhelmina, how it has come about that one of the Premier's own sons is a "Dutch Nazi...
Criticism has forms that run the gamut from a brickbat to a disapproving silence, but criticism as a profession is not crowded with leaders. Thoughtful U. S. citizens, dazed by the soundless flicker of statistics, deafened by the screams of professional iconoclasts, lulled by the thin whisper of unco-highbrows, should be grateful for the reassuringly human voice of Critic Van Wyck Brooks. He is known by the minority that reads him as a sound, tonic, unacademic observer whose interest in the tall trees of literary criticism has not blinded him to the more important U. S. forest. These Three...
...ancient hostility of the town to the gown, there has been growing up a rather wide-spread resentment in Cambridge be the antics of a few New Era professors, and that he is very likely to be the recipient in the coming election of many a vocal brickbat aimed at the subrosa employment of these Messiahs. He well knows that his irrelevant answer to your editorial will be considered by the general public, an attack, not on the CRIMSON, but on Harvard...
...your control by others. It is wrong and has no defense. Temperance is self-imposed and self-enforced; Prohibition is imposed by others against your will, and enforced with a policeman's club. You can no more promote pure temperance by force than you can make love with a brickbat. Prohibition is insulting to your manhood, because it denies to you the right of self-determination...