Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though denied the use of their parents' names, most of the lyrics in Whether a Dove or Seagull have a determinedly casual stance which suggests a male forbear: U. S. Poet Robert Frost, to whom the authors acknowledge an obvious debt in their dedication. Like him, they refuse to sentimentalize their fondness for nature, insist on its hostility to humans as well as its charm. But while robust Poet Frost nevertheless finds permanent solace among his Vermont hills and pastures, in the minds of Poets Warner & Ackland the bryony and woodbine of which they are fond are entangled with...
...damned. It is true that his position is difficult, that he is forced into a stand which may easily lead to a war, and to a fatal war from the angle that Germany cannot afford war and could not, in all probability, find outside support. But it is obvious that he cannot now be deterred. His present position demands a period of loud shouting and of anxious waiting--awaiting a time when the powers will agree to ask him back to Geneva, with appropriate minor concessions. In effect this election is Germany's last call for a peaceful settlement. Pollux...
Most notable conflict of principle is that which exists between the President and nearly all of his chief fiscal officers. At the Treasury, there is no Secretary; William Hartman Woodin continues sick. Acting Secretary Acheson carries on under obvious strain while rubber-dollar professors get the ear of the President. Banker Bruere, appointed to co-ordinate credit activities, is, in one commentator's phrase, "outstared" by huge-framed Jesse Jones...
...worry, to abolish the "News," and to print, in its stead, a handier, cheaper cardboard scorecard. If it is not true, then there is small defence for an unhandsome and elaborate system of secrecy. This system has existed too long. It has been without reason save of the most obvious sort. If this weekend's news stories indicate anything, it is the butt of intelligent men. It will probably be continued...
That minorities should be nationally resolved for justiciable purposes seems more obvious every day; the South, if the most conspicuous offender, is not the only one. Al Capone, for instance, was commonly known as a criminal of stupendous measure, but he was brought into the Chicago Courts and discharged by terrorized juries fifty times before the government nipped him on an income tax charge. And this took place in a community whose municipal courts are a national model for organization and efficiency. The record of New York's courts with the racketeers is far less savoury. But our great sectional...