Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Dr. Cunningham's statements are unsupported is, to say the least, misleading. Results count and I am only one of many who are alive today through Dr. Cunningham's treatment and we all feel that it is a shame that there are those who condemn without investigation, and thus discourage those with so-called hopeless diseases who might be cured or greatly benefited...
Bread And Fire-Charles Rumford Walker - Houghton, Mifflin ($2.50). "You know," she said, "the one thing people can never forgive in one is a betrayal of one's class." Harris Burnham, hearing his aunt thus condemn his excursion into socialistic journalism, replies by going to work with the hunkies in a copper mill. His is a hard-muscled method of thought. He refuses to betray himself by betraying humanity in order to remain loyal to an artificial class distinction. The, to many persons, pleasantly remote life of working people interests him like a bride. Feeling this alien devotion...
There is a depraved note throughout the volume. Cleopatra writes, "let not my enemies, therefore, condemn me too readily. Perhaps, they, too, if their sense of the futility of life were as keen as mine, would seek forgetfulness in a like orgy of pleasures. My conduct is nothing more than a gesture of angry defiance flung into the face of the gods. I can never forgive them for making me mortal while reserving immortality for themselves. If they can look down upon me and laugh at my helplessness, I will show them that I, too, can laugh at myself...
...Thus did Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the Supreme Court interpret last week the 1925 liquor treaty between the U. S. and Great Britain. Said he: "To give immunity to the cargo and guilty persons on board would be to clear those whose guilt should condemn the vessel and to restore to them the liquor and thus release for another opportunity to flout the laws of a friendly government which it was the purpose of the treaty to discourage." As a result of this decision, the captain and four members of the crew of the British ship, Quadra...
Sirs: I do not wish to continue my subscription of TIME. I am a Southerner and think the South more able to enforce law and order than those that condemn her. I am a Christian and think you are the reverse. I do not like your policy or your apparent principal...