Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Sculptor Jacob Epstein made news by exhibiting in Manhattan a statue that no one could possibly object to. This Epstein was an appealing, life-size bust of a child, arms outstretched, modeled after Epstein's infant granddaughter, Leda. It was to be put on sale for the benefit of British war relief...
Cross-examined, Osbert admitted that the Sitwells had refused an offer of 150 pounds and an apology from Reynolds News. Snapped the defense: "What is the object of this action, publicity or money?" Snapped Osbert: "To try to obtain some compensation for the damage done and to prevent the newspapers from libeling artists in this...
...ratio to his own guilt over slavery-and in many it was intense-the Southerner had to justify it to the world and to himself. Thanks to the planter's own angry guilt over wenching, the Southern white woman became the object of "downright gyneolatry." In Georgia in the 1830's this toast was proposed: "Woman!!! The centre and circumference, diameter and periphery, sine tangent and secant of all our affections!" Meanwhile an exacerbated sense of honor was turned in fury against all forms of criticism. Naturally many a newspaper editor was shot. Says Cash: "The South...
...million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for war. The pulpit will--warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, 'It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it.' Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with...
When the Nazis moved into the Lowlands last May, the Bank of Belgium hastily turned over its remaining $260,000,000 in gold to hte Bank of France for safekeeping. Object, as understood by France as well as Belgium: to keep the gold out of Nazi hands. The Bank of France shipped the gold to Bordeaux. There, when France had fallen and Nazi-French armistice was being negotiated, the Belgians tried to reclaim it. But the Bank of France refused to give up the gold, instead shipped it to Dakar. Ambassador Theunis' theory: the Nazis already had informed...