Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldwin concluded. "Germany has cut herself off from the comity of nations." To most of the King's subjects this, as intended, was anything but reassuring. In a spirited attack on the Baldwin thesis shaggy-maned David Lloyd George, now leader of a minuscule Liberal faction consisting of himself, his daughter, his son and his son-in-law-all M. P.'s-declared: "If you let the imagination run, you will bankrupt the country in trying to provide against imaginary dangers...
...faction dubbed themselves the "Upsidedownians" and firmly maintained that the true quality of Sheeler's art was only expressed when the painting was upside down. Another faction--the "Rightsideupsians"--put up a determined stand in favor of the artist, and decreed that the picture was not a picture unless it was in its correct position...
...faction dubbed themselves the "Upsidedownians" and firmly maintained that the true quality of Sheeler's art was only expressed when the painting was upside down. Another faction--the "Rightsideupsians"--put up a determined stand in favor of the artist, and decreed that the picture was not a picture unless it was in its correct position...
...there is one factor in Hilton's novels which justifies the belief that he gives promise of writing great faction, it is that he penetrates the level of superficiality that restricts so many modern writers. In "Lost Horizon," for example, through the eyes of the central character, Conway, one is brought into contact with the issues that underlie present-day life. But there is no preachment, no propaganda, nothing that to, so to speak, foreign to Conway himself. Now such writing has the elements of permanence. Hilton's style is faultless in its case and smoothness, easily adaptable...
Ready for discussion by General Convention last week were proposed budgets ranging from $1,800,000 to $2,700,000 for welfare and missionary work. A strong faction favored a low budget and reduced work. But in his opening sermon Presiding Bishop Perry forthrightly aligned himself with the mission cause and Dr. Franklin, a onetime banker and Wartime Liberty Loan worker, startled General Convention by accusing Episcopal parishes of holding out on missionary money - an accusation first publicly made last spring by Rev. C. Leslie Glenn of Cambridge (TIME, March 12). Pointing out that the National Council gets only...