Word: objections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women were more desirable as radio broadcasting announcers. One potent reason, according to many ladies' ballots, was that women prefer on weary mornings, to hear men's voices through their loud speakers. Women's voices also have too much personality, some ladies complained. Men did not object to this. They said women could not announce baseball scores and describe prize fights accurately. The real reason: men's voices carry better...
...jewelry and clothing or for rock salt, lumps of which pass current as money in the interior, as do cartridges. The Empress and a few nobles enjoy the exotic luxury of corrugated iron roofs upon their "palaces." The Prince Regent has but to mutter a command and the groveling object of royal displeasure is led away to have his hands chopped off, his wrists dipped in boiling oil, his back flayed by a U. S. barbed wire lash. Everywhere the timeless usages of Ethiopia are interwoven stressfully with Occidental permeations. But, like potent and perfidious Albion, the Little Empire "muddles...
...arsenal crawling soldiers and marines had squirmed through the charred ashes of leveled buildings, grasses, companions. Any moment a shell might explode, but most of the firing had ceased after 48 hours. Here a marine sifted, and as the grit drizzled through his sieve, he spied a black, circular object. A ring. Spattered on his shoes lay the reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers who had defied...
Mantrap. Sinclair Lewis may refuse the Pulitzer Prize but he does not object to the butchery of his literature in pictures. It is to be supposed that Mr. Lewis contrived his latest story with some care and regards it with some pride. In the movies it comes out as just one more of those dull afternoons. The story tells of a lawyer in a lonely north woods town. He engages in a flirtation with a lovely lady who has once been a manicurist in Minneapolis but is now the wife of one of the best inhabitants of Mantrap. Percy Marmont...
...ocean that no wave-motion would be noticed by the most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer Armstrong believes that where distance is the object of aviation, speed should be sacrificed for the sake of safety and comfort...