Word: objectore
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...moral aspect, therefore, the objector may well confine himself; it betrays a sufficient number of facts for discussion; on it alone may a solid case be built. Does inviolate tradition condone all? Does an air of the sacrosanct vindicate every blemish on the tabernacle? The reply is obviously one which must bow to the canons of good taste. Until the daily vaudeville ceases the public will be expected to stop, to stare, perhaps to snicker in adolescent fashion. But the public stops not to be entertained--these diversions have no relation to the word--but rather in amazement...
Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Winifred S. Hyman, 24, onetime infant prodigy, one Louis H. Hyman of Manhattan. She used a typewriter at 3, wrote meditations on "Mother Goose" at 5. Her mother, Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, moral objector to "Mother Goose,"* is founder of the League for Fostering Genius...
Omitting the vague point as to what constitutes public service, the objector may counter with other equally salient arguments. Many who receive scholarships fail to attain any great wealth on graduation. This fact, however, has nothing to do with their value as men entitled to the fellowship of educated men. Success, as it has often been pointed out, is more than a matter of dollars and cents. Men who are in every way worthy of scholarships may never be in a position to repay the loan To deprive them of the grant would be to lend an unnecessarily materialistic atmosphere...
...conscientious objector, was the only one to foresee the fruitlessness of the war when it was declared. Dick and Madge both went out, scorning what they then deemed his cowardly behavior. When they come back, like all those who went through it, they realize the utter no tense of medals, knighthoods,--labels, as they put it. Tom returns from the "conchy" camp at Boulogne, half-starved. The Father, entrenching himself behind his knighthood, declares that he will oust the "conchy" from his home. When his two other children, disgusted with their pater's pre-war outlook, declare they will...
During the war Mr. Stevens, who is the son of Frank Stevens, the head of a single tax colony in Delaware, was a conscientious objector and is a believer in anarchism...