Word: condemners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve. Said he last week: "Oh foolish ones! Without understanding this law you are busy marrying off little children. Shame, shame! You are so ignorant, and ignorance is the cause of your slavery to Great Britain." But though his own child-marriage was bitterly unhappy, he did not specifically condemn the custom, merely called it "ignorant...
Country Club, where Gene Sarazen won the national open in 1922. He was one of the few golf officials who did not condemn steel shafts when they were put on the market. He gave them a fair trial, repudiated the idea that they were invested with magic qualities which would make a good golfer out of a bad one, defended their use in tournaments against the U. S. G. A. and the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. He announced that his first acts as Tsar of the P. G. A. would be to raise the membership fees...
...Dramatic Club feels that "Liliom" is too old and hackneyed to be of value to them or of interest to their audiences they are well justified in seeking elsewhere for it more suitable play. But there is no reason for the Club to condemn "Liliom" on the grounds that its presentation would be contrary to their policy. Better far a well-worn "Liliom", than an over-exotic and unintelligible importation which no American manager would design to produce. If the Club can bring anything new and constructive to stagecraft by producing certain hitherto unknown plays, then there...
...opinion a public opinion which approves of prizefighting, including the knockout blow, cannot logically condemn flogging. Men and women who flock to an exhibition between the 'Game Chick' and the 'Battling Brown,'* would gladly see 'Burglar Bill' punished by the 'Wandsworth Walloper...
Liberals, of whom there are few, will welcome President Lowell's proposal. Reactionaries, of whom there are many, will condemn it. Its principle, however, and its immediate object appear to us to deserve the credit due all progressive moves. --The Daily Princetonian...