Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, 'Chicago's Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson and Lexington's Rector Charles Stewart Hale joined in praising him for a renunciatory act. But Dr. Abbott was content to say merely, "It will bring me into contact with all sorts of people; the rich and fashionable, the poor and mountaineers." He intends traveling through his diocese by automobile...
...that most notoriously moist common wealth, New York State, the Drys in the Assembly last week attempted to pass a State prohibition enforcement act. The Wets tipped it upside down by adding in committee a rider making it applicable only to liquor of more than 6% alcoholic content. Later the Assembly killed the whole measure...
...born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few glorious seagoing years, lived drably enough as an indifferent farmer, writing feverishly in the slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most inglorious one; indeed, worse than driving geese to water," but at least it kept him near to the life of the sea and took care of his Manhattan houseful of wife and nondescript children...
Chirico and Miro, two artists identified with that final phase of expressionism known as Surrealism, are represented in the exhibit. "Two Steeds", the canvas by Chirico, is charming both in its color and obvious content, aside from an elaborate allegorical significance. On the other hand, Miro's composition, entitled "Abstraction", is meaningless without an understanding of the artist's intention...
...burden of proof lay on the Crimson men, who were opposing the death penalty in Massachusetts; and so the Boston College team, composed of L. P. O'Keefe '29, H. M. Leen '29, and E. A. Hogan '30, was content with the maintenance of a satisfactory defensive case...