Word: inveighing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures are, at least temporarily, necessary. Columbia's Vice President Jack Cohn voiced the opinion of the industry to his salesmen in Atlantic City: "This violent burst of condemnation is directed against something greater than the motion picture. . . . The motion picture reflects the thing against which the Crusaders inveigh-the tendencies of the times...
Preachers who inveigh against those who take the name of the Lord in vain had no complaint last week against those who, without blasphemous intent, took 1,060 futile oaths. Complaint belonged properly to Federal Judge John Percy Nields of Wilmington. Del. He had to shuffle through the oath-takers' 1,060 affidavits in order to decide whether the National Labor Board could legally force an employer to let Labor Board agents hold a union election in his plant...
...attempt to trace its course, from its earliest appearance in primitive society, to a communistic Utopia somewhere in the distant future, in which all exploitation shall have ceased and the universal brotherhood of man shall have been accomplished. In the course of this discussion Mr. Fruchs finds occasion to inveigh against such specific evils as the over-emphasis of athletics, the philosophies of Plato and Nietzsche, the plight of the Nottingham weavers at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the place of women in modern society...
...great many have seen fit to rant in humanitarian terminology. The election, so goes the story, was a tragic farce, the picture of a people baring its neck to the heel of a despot. The claim is easily substantiated, but it is a close approach to stupidity to inveigh particularly upon a means when confronted by a commanding fait accompli. For, through one argument or another, Herr Hitler has crushed out party and state lines within Germany. He has, temporarily at least, a nation united behind him as its sole ruler. And if I read anything into Mr. Hitler...
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...