Word: hue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage Problem. In his role of philosopher-guide he unfolds four principles upon which the marriage of the future must be based if success is to be assured. There are in these four principles no loopholes for the individualist; the development of self for which we raise our modern hue and cry gets short shift beside the more universal principles of Keyserling's philosophy. As he agrees at the outset "the fundamental problems of life cannot be settled according to a schedule, because they are both in reality and intrinsically individual problemss; on every occasion when they arise the individual...
This is all very true. It has been said before and will be said again. The public is perhaps tired of the repeated hue and cry about "professionalism", "modern gladiatorial combats", and "over emphasis". But repetition is one of the laws of education. A few score men will continue to fight these at the risk of becoming tedious...
...been urging the inexpediency of the Cabinet's confiscatory oil and land program and its suppressive religious policy. A state financier of high ability, Big Pin Pani is also a shrewd political chameleon. He has served under more Presidents than any other Mexican adjusting, himself to the political hue of each, but retaining his reputation as an able administrator. Therefore no surprise was felt last week when it was announced that he would succeed Alfonso Reyes as Mexican Ambassador at Paris, and would be succeeded by Montes de Oca at the Finance Ministry. The surprise came when...
...what the police, the dress-suited detectives wanted to know. He had left, the doorman said, in a limousine. The law gave chase, to the limousine, to the charming youth, to the $10,000 bracelet of the doctor's wife which, vanishing from her arm, had caused the hue and cry. They found the limousine in front of a fine house. Thirty armed men forced their way in. "Please do not break anything," said the charming young man. He showed them ledgers filled with "donations" together with lists of the charities to which this money had been given...
Finally Sir Austen Chamberlain was hampered in making concessions by a curious hue and cry that British industry languishes while German workers are busy turning out "half-finished arms and arms parts" which are sold to Russia or shipped to Sweden for completion and thence to Russia, China, etc. It was a pat coincidence that the Foch report was sprung and the British "half-finished arms" scare was popped while Premier Poincare and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer were hobnobbing together in Paris?for these statesmen both oppose the conciliatory attitude toward Germany of Premier Briand and Sir Austen...