Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grand symphony of discord for which the resolving chord is equality of income. The bizarre title of the composition is calculated to attract male attention: a man cannot confess his ignorance of politics, economics, and all the rest of a voter's business, but he does not object to elementary instruction offered his wife. And if the husband should overhear. . . . Shaw chuckles contentedly, and instructs...
...poor Janey has found in him a worthy object of long delayed grande passion, and after a week of endearing herself to his tribe she persuades her handsome bandit that he too cares terribly, terribly much. But marriage?-ah, he cannot allow her to share the dangers of his hunted existence...
...South America had been a bitter trick played on his two partners, villains both. These two worked their way to prosperity as American bootleggers, and came at last to London, still snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington's adopted daughter. They employed for their villainous purposes thugs from London's underworld, and a beautiful Spanish matron whom they installed at the Ritz. But they had not reckoned with Martin's cool audacity, nor his marriageability, nor the girl he loved...
Last week, Polar Pilgrim Nobile planted the flag of Italy upon the North Pole, dropped upon its icy wastes the cross given into his hands by Pope Pius, conducted the first religious ceremony ever held on top of the world and, warmed by the glow of an object accomplished, headed back through icy winds toward Kings Bay. It had taken him 19 hours to reach the Pole. The first 17 hours of the return trip brought many messages to the base ship Citta di Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile...
...Carlos Taft, left Elmwood to be professor of geology at the University of Illinois, that young Lorado gave precocious and legendary birth to his interest in sculpture. A crate containing a cast of the snake-grappled Laocoon Group came to the university. Dismayed to find that the art object had been smashed in transit, 12-year-old Lorado who had accompanied his father to superintend the uncrating, seized the fragments and fitted them cleverly into their proper places, a feat his father had been unable to accomplish. Sculptor Taft's most famed work is probably the Fountain of Time...