Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train good Italians to be good Facists, and if these rules are obeyed, II Duce will have succeeded in resembling Napoleon to an even more gratifying degree. Anticipating some of the difficulties that might arise from the rather unusual sternness of the pronouncement, the Italian youth are not to object to being confined to prison, for the Dictator assures them that any such punishment will not be inflicted unless he deems it deserved. This is in keeping with the main point of the Decalogue which is that it is absolutely necessary to believe that M. Mussolini is always right...
...delicate question of calling in consulting physicians with or without the consent of the attending doctor is the first to be discussed. Here Doctor Hawes is entirely on the side of the patient, and does not spare his fellow-practitioners who object to having their judgment questioned. On the other side of the picture he arraigns the excitable patients who send for their doctor at unreasonable hours on slight pretexts...
Modern poetry will be taken out of the Harvard classroom and put into the bookshelf and the informal talk by the gift of $42,000 made to the President and Fellows of Harvard College by Morris Gray, '77. Three gifts, totaling that amount, were made, with the object that the income should be applied to the purchase of books of current modern poetry, and books upon the subject, and for talks by poets and critics...
...enforcement of the law Congress voted a routine $37,000,000 and then an extra $3,000,000, the purpose of which seemed to be-in the minds of its Dry proponents-to show President Hoover that money would be no object if he would really take enforcement seriously...
Other Tycoons. Incomplete must be any brief list of San Francisco financiers. Thus San Franciscans might well object to the omission of John Drum, head of American Trust Co., now, after many mergers, San Francisco's large independent bank ($273,776,849 in deposits). Like Giannini, Mr. Drum is a Papal Knight. He is most famed for his starry-domed marble bungalow atop the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. Notable also is able Frank B. Anderson, board chairman of Bank of California; his chief idiosyncrasy, a fondness for donkeys. Paul Shoup, President of Southern Pacific Co. also stands high...