Word: clingingly
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...they reflect attentively on the fact that nothing can be more acceptable to Jesus Christ, who certainly burns with great love for his mother, than to venerate her according to her merits, to love her deeply . . . ?" To all Protestants and to Eastern Christians who still cling to the heresies of Nestorius, Pope Pius XI proffered his Church's traditional invitation to return...
...play seemed not quite sure whether it was bad or mediocre, but were reminded of Chekhov's Cherry Orchard. Unlike the Chekhovian piece, Playwright Gretchen Damrosch Finletter's play depends entirely on its urban scene. The Frenches were a proud, suave clan as long as they could cling to their Fifth Avenue mansion. When the son gets into financial trouble, compels the family to sell the homestead to keep him out of jail, the Frenches become impotent, scatter like smoke in the wind...
...action of all parties concerned should be exemplary to other groups of privileged workers who have managed to keep their wages high when their less fortunate brethren were seeing payrolls constantly diminishing. When labor leaders consent to a reduction in wages, they show that they do not cling blindly to every temporary advantage and that they feel strong enough to obtain higher wages, if the price level should rise in the future...
...behind a euphemism while retaining its nature is at best a well-meant subterfuge. It is pleasant to think that "war between nations is as much out of date as the torture chamber or the scalping knife," but so long as such a nation as the Japanese cling to old fashioned methods, the fact will have to be faced. It is doubtful if even this country, with its pacifistic traditions, is prepared for total disarmament. The abolition of war will hardly occur until public opinion is educated up to it. It will be time enough to abolish the name...
...orchestra, as has been intimated, is one of the very best ever heard in a theater pit in Boston. The instruments are very well handled and the direction of the whole leaves nothing to be desired. From a first hearing, at least, there cling no striking sections but the score as a unit is good and really worth hearing...