Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days ago the palace sentries broke up a game between H. R. H. Prince Tomislav inside the royal iron fence and Belgrade street urchins outside. Object of the game was to see who could spit farthest. According to a Belgrade dispatch last week some Orthodox priests have asked pious Serbs when praying for good King Peter to add "and may God be kind to his naughty brother...
Healthy British humor continued to offset even such grisly prospects. In the Evening Standard inimitable Low cartooned two Britons with back-scratchers in a Turkish bath, one saying to the other: "Gad, sir, Mussolini is right! How can we expect him to behave decently, if we object to his dropping gas bombs...
...London's New Burlington Galleries, surrealist artists from 14 countries held their first British exhibition. Londoners gaped at The Last Voyage of Captain Cook, a wire globe enclosing a striped female torso. Object Made by a Madman was a basket containing scraps of glass, scissor blades. Beside it hung a pair of white dancing slippers, their heels encased in paper cutlet frills, a waiter's jacket strung with liqueur glasses half filled with creme de menthe. Tory visitors bristled at The Minotaure, a portrait of the late, great Lord Kitchener of Khartum with a tiny, sad-faced child...
Thus last week, 19 years after the Russian working people hopefully staged their Revolution, they were promised for adoption, at a date not yet announced, a new Constitution to defend their personal rights and interests. According to All Union Chief Prosecutor Vishinsky a special object of the new Constitution will be "to provide maximum precautions against unwarranted indictments and unjust convictions" and to protect the individual "even against wrongful prosecution by the State...
First on the list of momentous occasions which will make up the Tercentenary Celebration this year will be a special session of the Divinity School. The principal object of the session, which will be open to laymen and ministers of all denominations, will be the study of the development of religious thought in America during the last 300 years and the future of religious life in this country...