Word: inveigh
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Birth Control. Especially did His Holiness inveigh against birth control: "The Catholic Church, to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being denied by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of Divine ambassadorship and through our mouth proclaims anew...
Never publicly but often privately did Mr. Pillsbury inveigh against feminism and salute the ideal oldtime mother who kept her place in the home. Every one knew that his interests were World Peace, prevention of cruelty to animals, New Hampshire forestry. He played the violin. But everyone did not know that he had married twice (Louise Wheeler in 1889. Elizabeth Mooney in 1905), that he had quietly divorced his first wife, had been divorced in Reno by his second. But his disapproval of women in public did not lessen his esteem for their personal capacities...
...idle to inveigh against the stubborn fact some of the most thoroughly joyous, some of the most intensely vital experiences of living are inevitably interwoven with risk. One of Harvard's players has added his name to the fortunately small, but always unhappily large percentage of men who have derived more harm than good from participation in a fine game. It only remains to extend to Victor Harding and his family a deep sympathy that they have been made to suffer by a serious football injury...
...consensus of critical opinions, had it been taken a month ago, would probably have given Author Thomas Hardy the first place among modern English prose writers, perhaps the same position among English poets. There have, on the other hand, always been those critics who inveigh against the less graceful than sturdy power of Author Hardy's fictions. Famed Author George Moore found Hardy's writing almost without merit...
Upon no subject is the American Mercury better fitted or more logically inclined to inveigh than upon U. S. journalism. It depends for much of its copy upon newsgatherers and editors facile enough to catch the style, and cynical enough to enjoy the viewpoint, of Editor Henry Louis Mencken. Six of its 14 non-fiction articles for April were by newspaper men and women. Few months go by without Editor Mencken's discovering some fresh way to reprove the profession in which he got his start and training and of which he has been what he likes to call...