Word: echoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Echo answers...
...French law grants a divorce on the grounds of adultery, cruelty and conviction for an infamous crime punishable by imprisonment. (The inclusion of cruelty as a ground for divorce is an echo of Napoleon's troubles with Josephine.) The interpretation by the French courts of what constitutes cruelty is what has opened wide the door to marital freedom. It includes insults such as the failure to resume or continue marital relations...
...present a resolution calling for a conference of the "white nations bordering upon the Pacific" for unity of action against the aggression of Japan. To be sure, the House did not take the matter seriously; and several members condemned the proposition; but words once uttered go to the echo and come back. The Secretary was perturbed, beneath his calm, at the thought of that echo in Japan. He determined on a friendly action without delay. But what...
...undergraduate of Colby College wrote an editorial in the Colby Echo that bore reprinting in more than one other undergraduate daily. The title was: Our Most Prevalent Immorality. The thesis was: "If it is immoral to needlessly impair the body's vitality, then lack of sleep is Colby's most prevalent immorality. Students who ought to be firm-nerved, straight-thinking and clear-eyed go through their college course with a perpetual tired feeling, irritable, sluggish-eyed and languid-brained. They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome. They slump dismally into a chair...
There seems no immediate probability that the sacrosanct wall of the Metropolitan Opera House will echo to the strident syncopations of U. S. jazz. This in spite of the fact that Otto H. Kahn, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company, has invited Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, famed composers of jazz, to submit a jazz opera for production in the very throne room of music. Irving-Berlin would "give his right arm to do it," but feels technically unfit. Jerome Kern, who refused to try an opera six years ago, favors the scheme, whether he or another carries...