Word: consignment
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...Castigator is challenged only by his fellow idealist, Critic Henry Louis Mencken, has made another large round-up of grunting, whining, roaring, mewing, driveling, snouting creatures-of fiction- which, like an infuriated swineherd, he can beat, goad, tweak, tail-twist, eye-jab, belly-thwack, spatter with sty-filth and consign to perdition. The new collection closely resembles the herd obtained on the Castigator's last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from up-creek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross...
...ought to consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...
When one thinks of the myriad thousands of noble men and women who have died unbaptized, and reflects on the unkindly creed that would for that reason alone, consign them to an endless hell, the words of Laertes come forcibly to mind...
Away with these bygone days! With debates on the League of Nations, strikes, and professional football, we should like to consign them to the nethermost fire! We want more and wider pathways; a dry and firm footing on the road to knowledge. Our platform has but four planks--all of them to be used to widen the present walks...
...mobs go up and down the street, shrieking for the liberty they cannot comprehend. The rule of the mob is always terrible, for under it all that is lofty vanishes. If only through the rule of the mob may the rule of the people find stability, then we must consign ourselves to the maxim of the Jesuits, and trust that the end justifies the means...