Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS-William Butler Yeats - Macmillan ($2.50). If a Dublin Irishman in the course of conversation raises his right hand as if to take an oath, his wise friends know that he is about to quote from William Butler Yeats. Only Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Poet Yeats is Erin's uncrowned laureate as well as its most respected living writer. But even poets grow old. Though these latest poems may well seem more satisfactory to him than the wilder mystical verse of his youth, only devoted friends and a few new admirers...
Lynching is murder in its most brutal form. You, who are under oath to uphold the law, have given this worst of crimes your complete sanction. You cannot expect such men as Holmes and Thurmond to obey the law if the governor of the state of California does...
...Wales by becoming his time's sartorial authority ("his absentmindedness started the fashion of leaving the bottom button of the waistcoat undone; another time it made trousers turn up at the foot") and an almost professional student of insignia and decorations. Tactful, when as King he took the Oath before the House of Lords he so mumbled the passages denouncing the Roman Catholic faith that no one could hear a word...
Highlight of last week's exhibition was a broadside of the Oath of Hippocrates, set by Bertha Goudy in Fred Goudy's Forum type. This was saluted by the greatest U. S. printer, Bruce Rogers, as "the finest piece of printing I ever...
...White (by Sidney Kingsley; Group Theatre, producer), a medical improvisation on the Grand Hotel theme, is laid in a Manhattan hospital called St. George's and is concerned with the stern denials and spiritual rewards of those who live under the oath of Hippocrates. Capably staged by Lee Strasberg, the play, Mr. Kingsley's first-staged, has periods of magniloquence and structural fatuity. But graceful teamwork on the part of most of the Group's eager company of actors makes Men in White credible, valid in many a sequence...