Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he comes to the War, surprisingly, the author is much more restrained, more willing to let the facts indict themselves. He gives a plain, horrible account of the existence that unfitted George first for the conversation of his frippery London set and then for life itself. The climax has real inevitability...
Author Arthur Train deserted the legal profession to indict law and society in novels (Page Mr. Tutt, Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt, etc., etc.) which have been as readable as they were scathing. But the Train output has now slid off into a slow, melodramatic, sentimental tale of a prestidigitator who breaks into a New York society composed of retired truck-drivers. A truck-driver's debutante daughter lures the magician, but his old flame and vaudeville partner gets him back by misplaying their best act. The act: blindfolded, the girl stands on the stage holding a plate in her hand...
Montesquieu regarded the severity of laws as a definite hindrance to their execution. Juries will acquit and Grand Juries will not indict where a majority in the community oppose such sumptuary laws as is the Prohibition...
...because of its attitude towards the individual. A large part of its book is taken up with facts supporting this contention. In the course of his discussion he is led naturally to the statement--that we never got the Reformation and we never had Protestantism! He proceeds to indict the churches on the charge of interpreting religion in terms of an out-worn theology--the literal interpretation of the Bible. He is ready to agree that theology is essential to religion, but wants a constant religion and a progressive theology! His Religion, he describes as Faith in Life itself...
...Indiana grand jury was impaneled eleven months ago to find out. It failed to indict. Another grand jury likewise failed, being discharged prematurely when one of the jurors reported having been offered a bribe...