Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, when the Scottsboro affair was ending its fifth year and beginning its fourth trial scene, the accused Negroes had long since ceased to be a handful of friendless vagrants. Instead they had become black symbols of economic bitterness, race prejudice, sectional hatred and political conflict. To the Communist Party of the U. S., which had rushed to the Negroes' side with cash & counsel, the Scottsboro Boys were martyrs to Southern injustice and intolerance. To Southerners, the defendants were a gang of "bad niggers" whose crime was being brazenly exploited by malicious Reds, Jews and Yankees. Responsible Southern...
This does not mean that there is a conflict between course lectures and the tutorial system. There is only a conflict between course requirements and the tutorial system. A tutorial student would be hard beset if he did not avail himself of course lectures. Moreover, the honor student is not likely to disregard perhaps, the greatest opportunity the college offers--namely that of listening to the lectures of brilliant scholars...
...Herriot were foiled by the British and so eight years later were my own," declared André Tardieu. "During the Manchurian troubles Sir John Simon, as British Foreign Secretary, declared that under no pretext would His Majesty's Government permit their country to be drawn into a conflict...
Glads Swarthout's film, "Rose of the Rancho", now playing at the Met, provides restful relaxation during this bookish time. Its locale is old California, just after the United States annexed it, and the story is a highly romanticized version of the conflict between the old Spanish inhabitants and the land-greedy newcomers. In good musical comedy vein, if not with great historical accuracy, Miss Swarthout takes the part of the highly decorative leader of the Spanish "vigilantes" and John Boles the part of a "federal agent" who is out to see that justice is done...
True realistic pictures of the horrors of war can do more for the prevention of another conflict than a thousand peace organizations. Otto Dix had this in mind when he produced his "Der Krieg" or War Etchings, now on view in the Germanic Museum until February...