Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which women of 52 are conscripted, given arms, drilled, regimented and sent to the front to fight, is hard to imagine. Yet a majority of the Supreme Court of the U. S. last week did imagine such a situation vividly enough to deny citizenship to an alien woman of 52 who declined to promise to bear arms in defense...
...District Court in Illinois refused to grant her citizenship. In the U. S. Supreme Court, whither the case was carried, Mme. Schwimmer writhed with resentment as Acting U. S. Solicitor-General Alfred A. Wheat told the court that, if "an ordinary American housewife" held her beliefs it wouldn't matter, but that in the "brilliant Schwimmer mind'' those same beliefs were dangerous...
...Supreme Court divided 6-to-3 against Mme. Schwimmer's application. Said Mr. Justice Butler in the majority opinion: ''It is the duty of citizens by force of arms to defend our Government. . . . Whatever tends to lessen the willingness of citizens to discharge their duty to bear arms . . . detracts from the strength and safety of the government. The influence of conscientious objectors ... is apt to be more detrimental than their mere refusal to bear arms. The fact that, by reason of sex, age or other cause they may be unfit to serve, does not lessen their purpose...
...glimpses of the London of the eighteenth century which are alone worth the price of admission. The initial chapter of the book, "On The Art of Walking the Streets of London", is a delightful essay which could well stand by itself in any volume. "The revelations of the court of George I. of Walpole, of the run of speculation which ended in the South Sea Bubble, make excellent reading...
...bound to remember the superior advantages of training given him in college, and he is to turn these to superior account in the development of "trained, organized, fastidious, discriminating leadership," yet he is to do this without arrogance, without self-conceit, in short, without snobbery. He is to court nobility, but never to forget, as snobs always used to forget, that noblesse oblige...