Word: objectore
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...false as the idols of savages." But he has in mind the wars fought by his ancestors, fought in the classic mould dwelt on by Kipling. Owen, indeed, later says, "I'd fight--any time--for Peace!" His motives are quite different from those of the modern conscientious objector...
...candidate was tall, balding Gordon Dupee, 28, research director of the University's radio office, which produces Round Table. Presumptive reasons for the blackballing: 1) Dupee is a forthright conscientious objector (though 4-F); 2) only a short time ago, as a working student, he was the club's steward. The club council insisted, however, that Applicant Dupee had been rejected simply because he is "personally objectionable." Cracked a member: "Hell, everybody in the club is objectionable to everybody else in it-and rightly...
Jackass Age. Cotton Ed was a conscientious objector to the 20th Century. He walked out of the 1936 Democratic Convention in high dudgeon because a Negro preacher read a prayer. He was a drag-end isolationist. He was a believer in poll taxes; he was never heard to protest a Southern lynching; and he stood prepared to filibuster to the end against an anti-lynching bill. He decorated his speeches by "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away, or if there were no spittoons, he would spit on the Senate carpet...
Eddie Corstorphine, Scottish-born Presbyterian, got a conscientious objector's discharge from the Canadian Navy after four and a half years of war at sea. He had met & married Phyllis Lawrence of Guelph, Ont. She had converted him to Christadelphianism, a 96-year-old. Brooklyn-born faith which does not tolerate killing, prohibits military service "until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth...
When war comes, Conscientious Objector Tone is assigned to pitch hay. The rest of the cast disappears from the picture almost entirely, coming back occasionally for family meals. Tone's brother (John Sutton) is an R.A.F. officer who commutes from the family dinner table to an airdrome hidden in a nearby pasture...