Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to the usual custom, however, the tackling dummy, that long-suffering instrument of torture, will not have to go through the humiliation of being burned. Economy measures prevent the sacrifice of such a necessary appendage of the practices...
...doings on the legislative floors via microphone. Hotly to the ramparts leaped Editor & Publisher with an editorial entitled ''The Radio Menace." Excerpt: "Radio broadcasting in this country is not entitled to press privileges because it is not a free institution-it is a government licensed instrument which is susceptible to dictation by any administration that wishes to use radio to serve partisan or special ends. . . . "The best it can do, in routine reporting, is to put a smattering of the news on the air, thus distracting interest from legitimate newspaper news service and creating confused, incomplete public thought...
...curious psychograph by the prolific Charles Flato. More arresting than the psychograph itself is a series of admirable, prints from Brady's portfolio; one of them, a study of General Burnside standing by his camp tent, gives a convincing argument for Daguerre's metallic art as an instrument of high irony. Brady is far less self conscious as an artist than the usual photographic contributors to this magazine, and the clearness of his tones, achieved without the sacrifice of beauty, is surprising for one who worked in so early a stage of camera development...
...most of the others as well. However, the Senator adds, in reply to a question by Mr. Green: "No, there is nothing in the law of the codes which prohibits strikes and there is nothing in the policy of the board which is opposed to strikes as an instrument of the very last resort...
...late as 1931, Mr. Strachey was a follower of Sir Oswald Mosley, the avowed leader of Fascism in England, and his knowledge of British social conditions is deep and intimate. From it he argues that desperate capitalism will use the Fascist instrument in Great Britain, and he can see no reason to suppose that it will not be similarly applied in the United States. Nor, if his analysis of the instrument be correct, is there any reason to suppose so. What has made capitalism, in the words of G.K. Chesterton "not only a discredited ethic but a bankrupt business...