Word: caviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem ungracious of me to cavil at your interesting notes on the election of General Evangeline Booth [TIME, Sept. 10], for I know full well that TIME has a warm corner in its editorial heart for The Salvation Army. But for the sake of the record let me point out that, far from being "the implacable foe of General No. 3, Edward John Higgins," Evangeline Booth has shown by her actions of the last five years that General Higgins has no more sincere friend and loyal supporter than the General-elect...
...unreprosented minority is not so simple as Mr. Ludwig, fresh from Naziland, would have us believe. For him the word majority is a magic philtre, and he cannot say that the Nazis are unable to brew it; thus, although they have burned his books and routed him out, his cavil is not a constitutional one. Castor calls this another example of the megalomania which Mr. Ludwig's essay on Mussolini the strange and uncritical gimcrack...
...confused world with the authority which attends recognized ability. The world economic situation was analyzed in its several phases, national discussion of a quiet kind was provoked, and then the society entered the noiseless tenor of the quarterly way. The critical chorus, temporarily silenced, has resumed its cavil...
...coming English novelists, Norah James is not quite up but she seems to be coming. Her Sleeveless Errand (1929), a potent presentation of justifiable suicide, was suppressed by the London police. Even fundamentalist parsons, however, should find nothing to cavil at, much to approve, in Jealousy...
...height of the season even in Boston; it is to display a most quibbling quiddity to remark that the twenty love-sick maidens of the Civic Light Opera Company are but sixteen, or that the choruses might conceivably be better. There are excellences which triumphantly conquer all cavil. Lingering uppermost in memory is ever Mr. Moulan, who is as sprightly an aesthetic sham as ever trod worn boards. Miss Hart, as Patience, she is blithe, and she is gay, and she is sufficient. Mr. Joseph Macaulay makes, ah, a very Narcissus in the velveteens of Archibald the All-Right...