Word: impugnable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the method of arraigning material for the jury's deliberation can be improved, and certainly the committee is open to suggestions. But buying space in the public prints to belittle the awards and impugn the motives of the donor will be of very little help to anyone...
...Walter Kramer questions the "etiquette" of a Harvard man's making such criticisms of a Yale man's productions, but what have these college-boy partisanships to do with serious matters of artistic beauty where large and vital loyalties are at stake? Suppose a Yale critic were to impugn the taste, which should set up a piece of poetic sentimentality like, let us say. Longfellow's "Psalm of Life" as a model and touchstone for young lovers of poetry. Should we not, Harvard and Yale men alike, regard him as performing an important public service? Yet the "Psalm of Life...
Where shirts are black and blood runs hot, challenges to mortal combat are by no means out of fashion. But enlightened Italian society does not impugn a man of high station if, in the rush of affairs, he finds it more convenient to surrender his duelling privileges to some staunch friend...
Henry Cabot Lodge, senior U. S. Senator from Massachusetts: "Said I, on the floor of the Senate: 'I have no desire to impugn the motives of any of my fellow Senators, but I think it is little short of an outrage to bring the President's name in here and treat him as he has been treated today, in a place where he cannot speak for himself, where he has to trust to the words of others and where he is unable to make his own voice heard among those who assail him.' " Said The New York...
...bleeding herself white with a 20% new taxation. And this to pay reparation debts which, from proposals formulated by America herself, should have been paid by Germany. When France is giving the warmest reception to the American financial experts conducting the examination here it is scarcely the time to impugn France's good intentions in an extreme manner." Le Temps said: "It seems to us that France ought to take the initiative in new negotiations on the War debts. She could begin, as did England, by approaching the United States. First the exact total of the American claim...