Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line or a word, an innuendo or a criticism from cover to cover, that can offend or displease...
...been feared, before the document was presented, that such a subject discussed outside of the great ecclesiastical bodies would offend conservative opinion; or that to avoid this offense, the document would be framed in terms cautious, trite, and without value. That neither was the case was due to the prestige and adroitness of its two sponsors, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the U. S. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and the Rt. Rev. William Temple, Anglican Bishop of Manchester. Dr. Speer, since his graduation from Princeton in 1889, has attended many a missionary conference. He could doubtless remember those...
...line or a word, an innuendo or a criticism . . . that can offend or displease," is the new editorial policy of this society weekly...
...kneed childhood, to brooding, weak-stomached youth; and from the path of his progress Anne cast aside all obstacles. "The world was made for well people to live in," she had cried when she heard of Tomlin's death. Now she said: "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh. . . ." A good many things made Rex to offend, and these were quietly deleted from the lives of Sam, her husband and from Flagg and Fern, her healthy twins. The picture of dancing satyrs, the little statue of Venus, the table wine, the Sunday rotogravures...
Such solicitude not to offend the U. S. characterized not merely policemen, but the highest authorities of State, who went so far as to bar from entrance to Cuba, last week, the distinguished Dr. Pierre Hundicourt, onetime Haitian Delegate to the Hague Peace Conference, who is now an avowed propagandist against "the Imperialist policy of the U. S. in Latin America...