Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the guise of protecting the public from exposure to indecency, mayors, police commissioners, or decrepit vegetarians often suppress works of considerable artistic or educational merit. While some degree of censorship may be necessary in order to keep real filth from unsuspecting readers or playgoers, the censorship can most safely be conducted by a jury--the system preferred by such an expert in this field as Professor Chafee. Certainly a verdict rendered by twelve untainted citizens is likely to be less biased than one coming from some group that habitually deals in vice, and feels that it has a "mission...
...vociferous alumni element has recently been proposing, in the pages of the Alumni Bulletin, that the School be converted to Humanism--faith in man substituted for faith in God. Aside from theoretical merit or demerit of such a proposal, it is legally blocked by the School's constitution, which definitely specifies that the School be undenominational...
...first poppy of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' 1947 sale from six-year-old Saundra Fay Hall, gave her in return a little silver sombrero he had picked up in Mexico. Later that afternoon he drove over to the Bethesda Naval Hospital to pin a Medal of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster on ailing, aging former Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...late N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, a top U.S. illustrator of children's books. But they were even more disarmingly realistic than N.C.'s paintings had been. Last week the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced that it will give its 1947 Award of Merit Medal (and the $1,000 which goes with it) to Andrew Wyeth. The Academy makes its award to a painter only once every five years (1942 winner: Veteran Charles Burchfield...
...throne had her own troop of Girl Guides, the 7th Westminster Company, organized by children of Palace staffers. The Queen gave the girls a company flag, and in time Elizabeth worked her way up to be patrol leader-"a distinction," her official biographers carefully point out, "achieved only through merit." At Windsor Elizabeth was the Bosun of the Kingfisher Patrol of the Sea Rangers (seagoing Guides), and woe betide any Ranger who came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber. "Here," she once told her chatterbox sister Margaret, "I am not your sister...