Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good friend: We have judged it expedient to confer the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary upon our trusty and well-beloved the Hon. Charles Vincent Massey, member of our Privy Council in Canada, with the especial object of representing in the United States of America the interests of our Dominion of Canada...
...your questions last night and was on to all but two (2). The one on Judith I lost entirely, probably because I never made much of a study of that portion of the Book. The other was on why do the people object to the carillon* and I still think I was some way right on it. My answer was, "because they are not spiritual enough to desire the kind of music we usually get from that class of instrument." And don't you think if they were in harmony with those things they would be glad to have...
...letter does not blush."-ED. *An error, the name is "Phipps."-ED. "The question was: "How did Judith, the Biblical character, murder General Holofernes ?" And the answer: "Judith murdered General Holofernes by cutting off his head."-ED. *The question was: "Why do nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers and cabaret girls object strenuously to the Rockefeller carillon in New York and to the proposed Crane carillon in Chicago ?" And the correct answer: "Nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers, cabaret girls, etc., object to carillons because the carillons disturb their hard-earned Sunday morning slumbers...
...When he has destroyed the prejudices of the South, and replaced every copy of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris with a copy of Prejudices, by H. L. Mencken, where will he find victims for his purifying sword? With nothing left to attack, he would be a pitiable object. Perhaps he would ascend to Heaven in a chariot of fire...
...human eye does not function to its best advantage in the dark or in looking at a fairly well illuminated object when the eye itself is surrounded by darkness," according to Mr. Henry. "There should prevail as high a degree of general illumination as may be consistent with securing clear and easy vision of the picture...