Word: inquisitioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The numerous scenes pitch through so many scattered periods of Clyde Griffiths' life that one is given the impression of snatchy revelations, skipped pages. Yet Patrick Kearney preserves with such care the causal sequence of the story that Mr. Dreiser's tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in...
Senator James A. Reed, Democratic quizzer extraordinary from Missouri, glanced at Senator "Sonny" LaFollette seated below the salt (Caesar to his Lepidus), then shifted glint-eyed gaze to a Negro slouching easily back in his chair. The Senator: "Do you represent the second Chicago ward?" The Negro: "I am treasurer...
In the end the elders passed on Hillyer Hawthorne Straton and his father ejaculated that he was a "good straight boy ... a source of great pride and rejoicing" to his parents. There came a rumor that another inquisition might be held, and Hillyer Hawthorne Straton showed his mettle by remarking...
†Thomas de Torquemada, notorious Grand Inquisitor, celebrated the first great auto-da-fe (circa 1450), which began by a solemn procession of the Holy Office and its functionaries, followed by condemned heretics and penitents. Mass was celebrated and all present-including the King of Spain-took an oath of...
Many professors, indeed, admit the defliciencies of tests. The difficulty is to find a substitute medium for translating intelligence and industry into the official alphabet. And in determining grades it would seem necessary always to place some reliance upon examinations. But this necessity should by no means prove a barrier...