Word: objection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because he was "tired of the limelight." *Last week in an interview with Sportswriter Westbrook Pegler, Postmaster General Farley announced a new liberal interpretation of the ruling which bars from the mails news of lottery and sweepstake winnings. Said he: ''The only publicity I would object to would be outright advertisement of the lotteries. The law says we can't have that. The papers can go ahead, though, and print all the news there is about the poor chambermaid or the unemployed coal miner who bought a ticket for a shilling...
...would carry authority to a multitude of readers. Few years ago, in answer to a U. S. request for a definition of poetry, he replied that he "could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat, but that I thought we both recognized the object by the symptoms which it provokes in us." Last month, before a Cambridge audience, he finally told the world what he thinks about poetry, how he wrote his own poems and what it felt like to write them. This lecture is now published in book form...
...finish against both "brown Bolshevism and red Bolshevism. ... A curious and impressive result of the Hitlerite propaganda here has been to awaken a distinctive Austrian national spirit. . . . Every time the word 'Austria' is mentioned it now evokes a cheer. . . . We would like Austria to exist as an object lesson to the world of German culture . . . that is not a menace but an inspiration...
...General Fang Chen-wu and his private army going up to Kalgan. The two forces clashed. General Fang hoping to seize control of North China. Meantime the able Cantonese 19th Route Army was still making its way slowly north with the rumors gaining daily strength that its real object was to fight not Japan but Nan-king's Chiang Kaishek...
Besides these large obstacles, there are minor ones. Some object on moral grounds to the introduction of alcohol in any form. This argument can and should be answered by facing that fact known to all, that every college is at the present a perfect reservoir of bad liquor, and that the only influence of beer would be a salutary one leading away from poor gin. There will undoubtedly be other technical difficulties to be overridden. For instance, the beer cannot nominally be handled by the University Dining Halls, but must be dispensed by the individual House Clubs; prices will have...