Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their educational systems. Erring moppets in Minneapolis, Omaha. El Paso and Providence may be chastised only with parental consent. Teachers in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. are not allowed to pull pupils' ears. In New Orleans they are expressly enjoined from "pulling hair, striking, knocking down and pinching." Nevertheless, in three widely separated quarters of the nation last week, three teachers who had failed to spare the rod to recalcitrant students were upheld by the law or their superiors...
...himself whether the House of Representatives of Georgia has ordered Erskine Caldwell examined by a psychiatrist. Certainly the author of the famous "Tobacco Road" handed Georgia no orchids' in that brilliant yet searing expose. Though Caldwell and Peter Moody represent two totally different planes of achievement and position they nevertheless are doing the same thing:--telling of life and conditions as they see them, and the right to do so is guaranteed them. As long as any form of free speech and free press exists in this country, the action of the Carolina House will be a conspicuous blot...
...that greatness is still to seek nowadays, since the long-awaited and long-heralded "great American novel" is in abeyance, and there is scarcely a critic who has not called "Wolf!" too many times, once again in the case of the author who fathered 'Of Time and the River.' Nevertheless, when one considers what William Faulkner could have done with one incident in Mr. Bontemp's novel--the pursuit of the leader of the revolt, the slave Gabriel, through the forests and swamps--one begins to sigh for Faulkner and Hemingway...
...active Group headquarters is maintained at Manhattan's Calvary Episcopal Church (cable address: Apostolic). Not a few U. S. socialites have rallied to the faith of God the Millionaire to make the pleasurable discovery that if their servants were "changed," too, they became much more pleasant and effective. Nevertheless. Pennsylvania's Frank Buchman and his doctrine of Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness & Love seem to be more at home abroad...
More disillusioned than most of her heartthrob imitators, Dorothy Dix is nevertheless a stern foe of sexual irregularity among her readership. "Often a girl writes me that I have turned her back just as she was starting down the primrose path, and married men and women tell me I have kept them from the sin and folly of the double life," she says. To women who have been jilted by married men, she has a standard reply: "Quit befooling yourself with false hopes. . . . Now, when his romance with you is as stale as his marriage, he hasn...