Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indictment of modern society as a whole. In attacking the unimaginative and conventional in teaching, he is aiming at the same quality in American civilization in general. As the New Humanists would have it, Mr. Mearns is opposing dry reality with the nult of the child, in the orthodox Romantic manner...
...Stump administration has adopted none of the orthodox methods of unemployment relief, claiming the problem was national, not local. It has refused to inaugurate an emergency construction program on the ground that it would only tax the poor. Its $450,000 community chest was exhausted last November. It has claimed credit for relief furnished by the non-Socialist school board which is outside its control...
...symbolic figures, but they are more than merely parabolic types. Such earthy behavior and marrowy speech never was indulged in by men of straw. Son of a parson, Powys is much concerned with village religion, but his Rev. Silas Dotterys, Rev. Mr. Gassers do not always behave in an orthodox pastoral manner. Rev. Mr. Dottery, for instance, once hinted broadly from the pulpit that he felt it inconsiderate of his parishioners to die at his dinnertime; the hint was sufficient. Parson Sparrow, whose predecessor's morals had been lax, found to his dismay that the more upright...
...They made no important speeches. They upset no prime appointments. Yet with their busy-buzzing activities they managed to keep President Hoover on pins-&-needles. Though he had checkmated their attempt fortnight ago to recall three Federal Power Commission nominatons, they found new and diverse ways of obstructing his orthodox Republican leadership...
Crying Myself to Sleep! and And Then Your Lips Met Mine (Columbia) - Taking tunes played in the orthodox way by the Knickerbockers and the Radiolites...