Word: objections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killing them, is the major concern of most organized hunts. In America, where earth stopping is not practised, when a fox is hard pressed he goes to ground,- (''hole" to you. Bishop, Matthew 8:20, and Luke 9:58), -and lives to run another day. The real object of a foxhunter is not to kill a fox, but to observe the wonderful skill and perseverance of a well-trained pack of hounds after a quarry conceded to be the most cunning, the most baffling, and the most difficult of capture of any four-footed animal; and second...
Particulars of the pact were of minimum importance compared to the maximum import of its having been signed at all. In British and Italian quarters its phrasing was called "deliberately loose," the object of this being to permit the British Cabinet to keep the boiling antiFascism of Laborites in the House of Commons from unduly effervescing. Even so the London Daily Worker came out with a cartoon in which an extremely virile Benito Mussolini peers out over a Roman balcony toward a lawn on which an extremely effeminate Anthony Eden dances toward him in diaphanous costume, finger crooked coyly...
...asteroid watchers noticed that sometimes Eros varied in brightness over a period of 5¼ hr. If this was the period of its rotation, the variation might have been due to one side being much darker than the other -or to the end-over-end spinning of an, object which was not spheroid like big planets but an irregular, elongated fragment...
...Object of a waif like Ching-Ching, as seasoned child cinemaddicts are well aware, is to find rich and personable parents to adopt her. Randall is unmarried and the only eligible girl on board, Susan Parker (Alice Faye), is already engaged and traveling with her future mother-in-law. This does not dishearten Ching-Ching. She shows Randall and his valet (Arthur Treacher) how to sing a lullaby, goes sightseeing in Hongkong and voices a few proverbs, which detective picture addicts will recognize as from the Chanese. Sample: "A child without parents is like a ship without a rudder." When...
...Object which does not Praise Times Past (Francis Picabia...