Word: caviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political influence of the undergraduate when he becomes a citizen and blinds him to the difficulties of government which even vision cannot pierce. The Conference also voted that Mr. Hoover be petitioned to appoint a student to the Geneva disarmament conference, an appointment with which it is difficult to cavil. The delegate will probably do little good to the conference for it is impossible for him to possess the facts which might make him effective. But he will learn the difficulties with which foreign negotiations are fraught and he will, if appointed, lend concrete proof to the fact that American...
...Sawyer (Paramount). The Tom Sawyer of the printed page remains more real than any figure of flesh & blood concocted in his image, and for this reason there are people who will cavil at Paramount's cinema of him, or go with misgivings into a theatre to see him played, afraid that lies will be told about someone they know. Yet no lies are told in this picture. You can accept Jackie Coogan, you can accept the treatment which does all for the story that any cinema could do in the limits of program time-present its surface, the long...