Word: chafe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS SIDE IDOLATRY, A Novel Based on the Life of Dickens-C. E. Bechhofer Roberts ("Ephesian")-Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). The faults and foibles of ''the Inimitable" show him less noble, less lovable, more humanly possible. Dickens lovers will chafe, disagree...
...multifold weaknesses, actual and potential, therein involved. That the American system of divided responsibility makes neither for legislative coherence nor executive efficiency is a commonplace with any student of government. That it further hampers President and Cabinet members to a point which makes men of the highest ability chafe in either of these positions, and that it reduces the supreme legislative bodies of the land to groups of discontented and irresponsible obstructionists are indictments of too much verity to be lightly pushed aside...
...page after page the reader is held fast to the ground by a million gossamer strands of unimportant detail. Chafe though he may for the moment when he may take off and soar among the clouds, that moment never arrives...
...fond of forms and precedents and traditions; in one of his latest public utterances--almost Gladstonian in tone--he has praised the Scotch Sabbath as compared with the Continental Sunday. It is no wonder that his wilder supporters from Glasgow--the irrepressible Jack Jones and others--should often chafe under the rein and that even his closest friends should bewail the fact that he so seldom chooses to rise to heights of impassioned and inspired defense of Socialistic ideals. But he has made the choice and they must be content with his decision. More serious in its tendencies to weaken...
...Keegan, Chairman, Miss Evelyn Packard; J. V. Blasi, Miss Georgianna Chafe; R. F. Denvis, Miss Julie M. Hurley; J. G. Dunton, Miss Gladys Parsons; D. F. Egan, Miss Margaret Egan; R. W. Fitts, Miss Lucie Doyle; A. M. Garvin, Miss Margaret MacInnis; S. F. Hall, Miss Josephine Payne; E. W. Love, Miss Rosamond Bartlett; W. V. Miller, Miss Edna Holzman; J. H. Millet, Miss Thelma Amazun; L. M. Sibley, Miss Mary Ray more...