Word: objectore
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...pacifist. His sense of martyrdom is irritating and sincere, once prompted the remark: "If you see someone who looks as if he is on his way to Clarkson's [a theatrical wigmaker] to hire a crown of thorns-that's Kingsley Martin." Martin registered as a conscientious objector in 1916. After his return from World War I duties as a hospital orderly in France, he studied at Cambridge, fell in with the prevailing intellectual fashion of Marxism and, after a stint on the Manchester Guardian, became editor of the New Statesman...
Fiery Tipple. The history of the family of Lord Littlehampton's friend, Poet Jeremy Tipple, is also a compact history of British literary taste. It ends on a magnificently acid note with an account of the devoted leftist, Bill Tipple, a conscientious objector in the late war until the German invasion of Russia jolted him into joining the Drayneflete section of the National Fire Service. Bill Tipple is currently organizing secretary of the World Congress of International Poets in Defense of Peace...
...Daily Princetonian was the major supporter of the Torch's proposals, stating that it stood squarely behind the society's suggestions. Clinton R. (Cupie) Black, captain of the 1916 Yale football team, proved to be the most violent objector...
...advised his stepson to refuse to register, he said, and had offered him money to skip to Canada or Mexico. The stepson disregarded the advice and on his 18th birthday registered. But 40-year-old Wirt Warren, a Unitarian and a Socialist who had been drafted as a conscientious objector in World War II, was plainly inviting the U.S. to make something of it anyway...
...sleeping bag and put on his scuffed leather flight jacket. Then he headed for Cherche-Midi military prison, on Paris' Left Bank. He told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...