Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing the hero himself Mr. Buchan has no taste. His most notable bill in Parliament was one on greyhound racing. British intellectuals object to the fact that Buchan scholarship, without falsifying history, can make a great man look like a scamp, a scamp look like an honest fellow. He is friend to many a British pacifist yet he believes in what he calls "the eternal sacrament of war." In his career, he goes slowly and prudently, saves all his violent and romantic impulses for his books. He married a daughter of the rich Grosvenor clan, the Duke of Westminster...
...capped, next Commencement, with the Duke statue. Last month the Archive, Duke's literary magazine, placed the statue in its Hall of Infamy "because it is in extremely bad taste, because the cigar in his hand is the keynote to its vulgarity, because it will be an object of ridicule to all who see it ... because were Mr. Duke alive he would per-haps have the modesty to ask that it be placed elsewhere.* Recently 300 students begged the university to reconsider...
...priesthood. Their societies are organized simply: in Monthly Meetings (one congregation), Quarterly Meetings (representatives from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (representatives from several Quarterly Meetings), General Conferences (numerous Yearly Meetings). Last week two important Yearly Meetings gathered in Philadelphia, citadel of Quakerdom, where some Orthodox Monthly Meetings still object to hymns with music and hired preachers...
...canvas. ... I want you to do something practical for me. A number of men, outstanding individuals in the world . . . are now on display at the Newton Galleries. There is no charge for admission, so you go down there and study these canvases. ... It will be a fine object lesson...
...British warship was sent to the scene. It was withdrawn, however, upon the arrival of United States marines. But if our government is going to remain aloof from now on when our southern neighbors elect suddenly and with force to change their government will we still be able to object to European intervention...