Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soft-pedaling propaganda and modern meanings, by roaring straight ahead with pistol shots, slugfests, savage hysteria, explosions of Gallic wrath, Haiti becomes two hours' worth of good old-fashioned theatre. But one modern meaning arises spontaneously: When the Haitians win their freedom from the French at the end, the Negroes in the audience burst into frenzied, deep-throated applause...
...organized by a new Franco-British Association of Art et Tourisme, sponsored by Their Excellencies the British and French Ambassadors, and numbering among its active officers Anglophile André Maurois. Frenchmen, who are still fond enough of Daumier and Grandville (TIME, Nov. 8) to use their drawings in modern advertisements, got plenty of fun out of their English predecessors and contemporaries, Hogarth, Rowlandson, Gillray, Cruikshank et al., represented by 391 sketches, engravings and lithographs. But this was only a foretaste of the grandeurs to come...
...Review then told discreetly of an unnamed scientist who decided to pit a modern wetting agent against that anciently proverbial shedder of water-the plumage of a duck. He added a small amount of a wetting agent to a bath, put a duck in the tub. The duck, quickly soaked to the skin, became waterlogged, sank to its neck, floundering ignominiously. Reflecting that the duck might have caught a bothersome chill from this unprecedented experience, the scientist mercifully dispatched it, served it for dinner, with Burgundy and applesauce...
...book, Alcohol in Moderation and Excess, said that abuse of alcohol led to all kinds of social, moral and physical ills, warned that moderate drinking might lead to excessive drinking. But Authors Waddell & Haag were constrained to add that modern scientific thought held the moderate use of alcohol "does not shorten the life span and probably plays no important part in the perpetration of lawlessness," that, indeed, it helped digestion, gave bibbers a "lift," produced "a feeling of self-satisfaction and physical well-being...
...Governments that have no fixed standards of morality, and consequently no moral sense, can scarcely settle the question of war on moral grounds for Christians, . . . who see and know the injustice of practically all wars in our modern pagan world. There is the very practical question for informed Christians who acknowledge the supreme dominion of God. . . . WILL SUCH CHRISTIANS IN OUR COUNTRY FORM A MIGHTY LEAGUE OF CONSCIENTIOUS NON-COMBATANTS...