Word: ernest
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...realistic facing of the problems raised b urban growth," he stated further. "Finally, following World War I, novelists became used to the phenomena of the city, which previously they had considered an ugly ogre in American life, and took it more or less for granted"; and men such as "Ernest Hemingway have since concerned themselves in their novels with the reactions of individual characters to special emotional situations" without resort to a stereotyped local color or urban setting...
...Ernest Lapointe was a national figure as envoy to London, Geneva and Canberra, as Acting Prime Minister and a power behind the Administration; yet he remained a native son from whom Quebec expected-and got-special attention to provincial interests...
...Canada regulations. Because he spoke out for a declaration of war and strong support to Britain, rabidly anti-British groups in Quebec called him "Judas Lapointe." Tory imperialists claimed that he and Mackenzie King purposely slowed up the war effort. But when the chips were down in 1940, Ernest Lapointe's threat to resign if Quebec did not back the Government's war policy did more than anything else to drive the antiwar Nationale (Lapointe called it Nazionale) Party of Maurice Duplessis out of office...
What inspired most of the worry was that patrician, patronizing Arthur Meighen, who sponsored conscription in 1917, had been dusted out of the Senate, made Conservative leader and heeled with Tory funds to start a conscription crusade (TIME, Nov. 24). Without Ernest Lapointe to pull the proper strings at the proper time, such a crusade might end in a free...
...Died. Ernest Lapointe, 65, Canadian Minister of Justice, foremost French Canadian political leader; of diabetes and a lung infection; in Montreal...