Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actively oppose it. U.S. men are willing to be drafted for an expeditionary force abroad (53.3%) but their mothers (37-9%) and wives (26.7%) are not so willing. More than 36% of their womenfolk would accept an A.E.F. unwillingly; 22% of their mothers, 32% of their wives would actively object...
...object to one adjective in the repertoire of your Music Department? In your July 7 issue I am described as "beaky." This error seems to be part of a tradition developed by several caricaturists. Peggy Bacon, in her book of drawings, Off with Their Heads, called my nose "positive" but her picture does not emphasize its aquiline character. In fact, I have been told that my nose is too small for my face, and I am thinking seriously of having it lifted at the bridge...
...counted it was observed that the new Cabinet contained three fewer noses than the old. Conspicuously missing was the slightly bulbous nose of Yosuke Matsuoka, who as Foreign Minister had promoted the Triple Alliance with Germany and Italy and the Neutrality Pact with Russia. It was evident that one object of the Cabinet change was to squeeze out Mr. Matsuoka...
...fifth anniversary of the beginning of Spain's Civil War, Generalissimo Francisco Franco went to Villaverde, near Madrid, and made a tough, bitter speech to the National Council of Spain's one big Party, the Falange. Object of his bitterness was the U.S., because, said he, the U.S. had put "such obstacles" in Spain's way that thousands of tons of wheat consigned to Spain lay in U.S. ports. Behind U.S. offers of economic aid "always appeared the attempt at political mediation . . . incompatible with our sovereignty and our dignity as a free people...
...Joys: Ellen Wilkinson, Sir Stafford Cripps ("affectionately" called "Christ and Carrots" Cripps because he is a vegetarian and "a deeply convinced Christian, although not a churchman"), Welsh Coal Miner M.P. Aneurin Bevan, John Strachey ("a big sleek black cat, with perfect manners and a feline ability to keep his object firmly in view"), Victor Gollancz (cofounder of Britain's Left Book Club), Professor Harold Laski...