Word: flaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Headlines screamed throughout the globe, when the 21 Delegations voted 15 to 6 in preliminary conclave that not only plenary sessions of the Conference but also committee meetings should be public. Because the U. S. had been expected to demand secret sessions-lest Latins flay U. S. intervention in Nicaragua-universal astonishment reigned, last week, as Charles Evans Hughes calmly cast the U. S. vote for public sessions. Amazing! Now there would be fireworks...
...comedy of manners degenerates every so often into the comedy of "rackets." The comedy of manners satirizes anonymously on a broad plane of society. Its characters are types, such as the midwives of Plantees and Oscar Wilde's cookie-eaters. When audiences tire of types, satirists turn and flay contemporary figures in the professions...
Education. President William Herbert Perry Faunce of Brown University stood before the convention to flay the U. S. public school system. Said...
...card home. He wanted to see the Chicago park system, stock yards, municipal pier "and that stadium where the Dempsey-Tunney fight was held." He said: "Greatest American? Lindbergh, undoubtedly. Next President ? Oh, probably Charley Hughes. Locarno pact? What's that?" Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane took occasion to flay Mr. Gray: "He never reads the foreign news, just goes along through life very much like any chicken in his chicken yard, if he has a chicken yard. Fortunately for the nation it is not made up exclusively of average citizens...
...Nathan, dramatic reviewer, have smirked at the pair with the nervously good-natured tolerance that a stupid child affects when he sees "Billy is a fool" written upon the school wall. Intelligent critics realize the formula upon which these angry, mocking mimes base their performance. The grotesqueries which they flay are often genuine; but most intelligent people find more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers of the team of Mencken & Nathan are generally to be found among the mushroom intelligentsia at whom their weapons are pointed; but the admiration is so open-mouthed and so self...