Word: inveighed
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...perhaps half of the Jews gave their friends Christmas presents, told their children about Santa Claus; some even put Christmas trees in their living rooms and wreaths in their windows. So widespread is their celebration - purely social - of the Christian feast, that few rabbis bother any more to inveigh against it. Indeed, one rabbi last fortnight ardently defended Christmas-for-Jews, in the influential Protestant Christian Century. He was Louis Witt of Dayton, Ohio, leader in the Central Conference of American Rabbis, chief Reform Jewish body. Said Rabbi Witt...
...Franklin Roosevelt's great personal popularity among Negroes, the poor and the underprivileged, Bruce Barton cried: "The fact remains that this mass feeling toward the President is the controlling political influence of our day. To ignore it is blindness, to inveigh against it is political insanity. The intelligent attitude is to admire it, covet it and set industriously and sincerely to work to deserve...
...cigarets, 4,763,883.947 cigars, 95,875 tons of pipe tobacco, 18,030 tons of snuff. That smoking is not injurious to the vast majority of smokers is attested by the microscopic size of the anti-tobacco movement and the infrequency with which reputable physicians inveigh against tobacco. But people who do smoke too much are doubly unfortunate because their "pleasant vice" is so extremely hard to break. Writing in the current Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. John Lanahan Dorsey of Johns Hopkins has news for weak-willed oversmokers...
CHALLENGE TO DEATH-Viscount Cecil, Storm Jameson et al.-Button ($2). Fifteen British writers (among them: Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Edmund Blunden) inveigh against...
...arts are represented, and by specimens which tend to be a persuasive, even if mute, testimony in an age of rampant modernism. In his well-written, though necessarily hurried, and even breathless, survey, Mr. Wickham pauses to inveigh against those modernist critics, who deprecate the masters of yore in order to extol "now a van Gogh, now a Picasso, now a Klee, now a Braque, now a Wadsworth, or now the art of the primitive Negroes or the Seljuka." That kind of criticism is indeed indefensible; one hopes, however, that Mr. Wickham, in his ardor to defend classicism against...