Word: condemners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court last week approximately as incoherent as the one on which Dr. Hanfstaengl based his suit, but the great earnestness of enormous Putzy won him some sympathy. It became possible to guess that Dr. Hanfstaengl had meant to convey to Lawyer Thompson some such thought as this: Oxford professors condemn us for what we have done to the Communists said to have burned down our Reichstag, but what would those same professors say if Communists burned down Oxford? To anyone who knows Putzy the whole matter was plainly one of insufficient smelling salts, but British Justice was obliged to grind...
...late years attentive observers have noted two contrasting literary movements developing in such centres of native culture as Knoxville, Sewanee, and the hills of Tennessee. Most widely publicized of these has been the new agrarian group led by Poets Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, who condemn modern industrialized society, advocate a social order based on small farms, celebrate the forlorn gallantry of the pre-Civil War South. Although they preach the urgent necessity of living close to the soil, these writers advance their views in forbiddingly highbrow essays, in metaphysical verse that seems closer in spirit...
...their pompous gear the bishops of the Church of England met in London last week to condemn the anti-Jewish policies of Adolf Hitler...
...revolving in his grave? Or are those ethereal whispers the gasps of the Paris statesmen, wondrous that the League is doing what it is, amazed that for the first time in history an overwhelming majority of nations has been able to agree on the aggressor, and not only condemn but attempt to restrain its actions...
...still waiting for the Head of the Church of Rome to condemn . . . Italy," snorted President Baron Dickinson of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches last week in London. Stoutly rebutting for the Supreme Pontiff, Most Rev. Arthur Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, explained that the Holy Father is "a helpless old man. ... As Head of the Church he has no grounds to interfere in purely political matters unless invited...