Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Ransom does not so much defend the obscurity of modern poets as give a lucid explanation of its cause. He says that poets, once bards, patriots and men of public importance, now seem wilfully determined to destroy the prestige that their predecessors have courted for generations. If they write "pure" poetry, like Wallace Stevens, their poems have no moral, political, religious, or sociological values, and their technical dexterity is spent on subjects that have no importance. If they write "obscure" poetry, like Allen Tate, their subjects are important, but they deliberately complicate their lines as if afraid of being...
Neither Indian Commissioner Collier nor Secretary Ickes showed up in Atlantic City, as the conference had hoped, to defend their work. Mr. Collier sent a message, in which he ducked religious issues, said his bureau is hampered by "a thousand antiquities," begged the co-operation of alert citizens, for "Indians will always have neighbors who stand to profit by despoiling whatever little property they may have, and debauching them as human beings...
...Roosevelt's bill to spend $1,500,000,000, enlarging the U. S. Navy, was considering a provision to provide $15,000,000 "for development of ideas on national defense," Mr. Rice hastened to contribute. His idea: A canal across the U. S. to enable one navy to defend both coasts. His reasoning: A 360-mile ditch between the Missouri and Columbia Rivers in northern Montana would open a waterway at least six feet deep between New Orleans and Portland, Ore. (A 260-mile ditch between the Potomac and Ohio would open a waterway from Washington...
...baby which every child should know," New York State's Knights of Columbus complained to New York City's five county district attorneys. Result was that District Attorney Samuel L. Foley of The Bronx arrested four news dealers for selling indecent literature. LIFE prepared to defend them, as it did dealers in Boston...
...campaign, with the bandying of "liberty," "democracy," and the "American form of government." He remembered the crowds, the noise, and the national frenzy that rose to a fever pitch one warm November day, and then subsided. He remembered hearing that golden voice as it swore to "preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution. He remembered all these things--and then, as if in echo, he heard again, "We must take action to save the Constitution from the court...