Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that would take just a hundred and seventy-five minutes to solve so that there would still be time before the close of the examination for the traditional remark concerning the lateness of the hour. For it is doubtful whether even those with the steadiest of nerves would object to the passing of peripatetic proctors...
...with Lawyer Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago, had defended Teacher Scopes. Lawyer Darrow, resting in Mobile, Ala., held his peace but Lawyer Malone spoke out: "We did not go there to save Scopes from an excessive fine. Nobody cared whether he was fined $100 or $1,000. . . . Our object in going to Tennessee was first, to expose the ignorance and intolerance which had produced such a law and, secondly, to test its constitutionality by ultimately carrying it to the United States Supreme Court...
What causes such ridiculous antics in the name of public morality? It Chaplin's films had in them anything which the strictest Puritan could object to, the municipal censors might be justified. But no evil that he does lives on the screen. His pictures are clean in addition to being funny. When "Searing Kisses", "Bachelor Husbands", and "The Gilded Bed" are allowed, it seems strangely paradoxical that Chaplin's off-stage actions should be considered subversive of popular morality...
Freddy the Cabman was as temperamental as an opera star about being interviewed. It took the CRIMSON reporter a half hour to persuade him that a few reminiscences, not a nocturnal sleigh ride over frozen Cambridge streets behind old Freddy the Horse, was the object of his approach...
...actuated by the very real desire to see her impeached husband vindicated. She made her personal grievance the chief plank in her platform. The sentiment of the Texas electorate was stirred, to the quick, and Mrs. Ferguson was elected. Her failure may be regarded as a rather salutary object lesson in the evils attendant upon unthinking balloting...