Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn Heights, was notorious for his Southern sympathies before the Civil War. Once during that War a mob surrounded the van Dyke home, demanded that the pastor display the U. S. flag as proof of his loyalty, was dispersed by elders of the church. Mentioning such conflicts with obvious distaste, Tertius van Dyke concentrates on Henry van Dyke's idyllic boyhood, his carefree college years in Princeton, his travels in Europe, pictures him as the frail, pugnacious son of adoring parents. At the age of 26 he became pastor of the United Congregational Church in fashionable Newport, married happily...
...obvious and most striking aspect of the proposal which the Undergraduate Council makes in its recent letter to the President is the extreme likelihood that such a reading period as it recommends will be used wisely, and not abused. It is workable. It is very easily adaptable to the Princeton "departmental" system...
Paying his first visit to the U. S., British Novelist James Hilton (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips,) announced: "I want to see the obvious things in America." Driving down Manhattan's Park Avenue next day he nearly ran over a policeman with a drawn revolver, was warned to keep his distance because there might be "some shooting." Popeyed, Novelist Hilton watched more policemen closing in, heard that bandits had just robbed swank Pickslay Co.'s jewelry store of $15,000 in loot...
...will be surprised at the Governor's blustering indictment of the Bar Association's efforts. The motives of most people are not always as clear as those of Mr. Curley himself, but it appears obvious that the Bar saw a glaring injustice in the Baker appointment and voiced its unqualified disapproval as under our form of government all citizens have a right to do. The Association was certainly not dictating an appointment, merely trying to prevent a poor...
...quotations from Rufus Choate the Bar Association can summon up will have little enough effect upon the man holding the whip in the State House. To say that such a rank political trick endangers public confidence in the courts is too obvious a truth to emphasize. But, after all, what influence can such a trivial consideration have upon the Napoleonic mind of Mr. Curley? It is almost comic to hope that the integrity of the judiciary will mean anything to the man who has dragged the governorship of Massachusetts down to a level where almost no one has confidence...