Word: manifestants
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...results are only partially manifest. To many young people what used to be considered lapses from the moral code, are now considered to be acts which are as natural as eating and drinking. Indeed, youth often decides on the basis of expediency or worthwhileness, whether sexual intercourse should be indulged in, never thinking of any after effects, because they believe there will be none. They see no harm in it-science will protect them; and science generally does. . . . Whatever we may think of such conduct, the thing for us to notice is that it does exist, and that largely because...
...British Government to suspend diplomatic relations. The Soviet Government know well that if they come forward with constructive proposals we shall be glad to consider them, but first they must abstain from propa ganda against this country." In addition to this sharp exchange in the Commons, excitement was manifest in British Communist circles last week when the Foreign Office refused to issue passports to five children, nominated by British Communist organizations to visit Russia as guests of the Moscow Congress of Russian Youth Pioneers...
...Oxford and Cambridge have a rivalry of considerable longer standing than that between Harvard and Yale, a rivalry that draws athletes from the college competitions of each University and places them of late, under paid coaches. The British public has come to manifest some interest in the contests and the most spectacular matches are played where the best crowds can be drawn. Rugby football, moreover, as the most popular sport, has frequently accumulated surplus funds which have been distributed, as with football in America, to nourish less fortunate games. In each college, there is a central control for athletics...
...Premier Stanley Baldwin rose from where he sat between Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill. Ostensibly they were calm, Sir Austen sitting habitually erect and glacial, almost prim; and Mr. Churchill slumped in thought. Yet the extreme nervousness of all three was manifest a little later, when easy-going Mr. Baldwin seemed about to blunder into a damaging admission. Then and there, the Premier was literally yanked down by the coattails. He subsided between the other two Fates until he could collect his thoughts and go on. This little comedy was played...
...James Whitcomb Riley. Onetime Senator Beveridge was famed as orator, author, statesman. While at De Pauw University he won an intercollegiate oratorical medal, awarded in another year to the late Senator Robert Marion LaFollette. Entering the Senate in 1899 he was an ardent Imperialist, supporting McKinley's "manifest doctrine" policy, advocating permanent retention of the Philippine Islands. He joined the Progressive Party in 1912, was chairman of the Roosevelt convention. In 1922 he was defeated for the Senate by the late Samuel M. Ralston. A war correspondent in 1914-15, he interviewed Kaiser Wilhelm II, published a volume, What...