Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Affairs. The managing editor of the magazine has invited several high Nazi officials to present their views unadulterated by American cutting or editing. In view of the distortion of German news by most newspapers and periodicals in this country this innovation should give readers an opportunity to pass some judgment on the leaders of the Nazi regime from their own statements presented in an unprejudiced manner without any attempt being made to influence the reader...
...Harvard lacks a soul, that University Hall is merely another manifestation of the bureaucratic trend in American institutions, harsh and unfeeling, meting out judgment to wrongdoers. For with Christmas in the air, even the patriarch of Deans has fallen prey to the good will of the holiday season. As his present to upperclassmen, Dean Hanford has spread the glad tidings that no attendance will be taken Saturday in courses other than those regularly open to Freshmen...
...they might sit in judgment on a new Hamlet, critics trooped back to the Forrest Theatre to see the new Jeeter. Consensus was that whereas Barton had brightened up Hull's dour Jeeter, Bell's was even brighter still. In the matter of costume, Hull and Barton were about equally ragged and filthy. Bell's hat seemed a little less greasy, his dungarees a little less torn. He did not spit so emphatically as Hull, nor could he manipulate Jeeter's rheumatic legs so convincingly as Barton. In Bell's hands what Jeeter lost in wickedness, he made...
...impelled by the Church, would crack down on Mexico's counter-clerical government was so strong that the official daily National took time to mourn for "Calvin Coolidge, one of the highest representatives of the human race. . . . Under [his] administration Mexico became better understood. . . . He had the good judgment to send us Mr. Morrow...
When President Roosevelt had the good judgment to send them Mr. Daniels, Mexicans could see at first only that they were expected to receive the Yanqui* who was Secretary of the Navy when it bombarded Veracruz in 1914. Ambassador Daniels was called a "living insult" to Mexico-last year. Today the politicos of Mexico City can scarcely believe they ever were so dumb...