Word: outcastes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation-wide thanksgiving was sounded by Nicholas Murray ("Nicholas Miraculous") Butler. No overt celebration marked the day with red. Yet many a wide-awake modern-minded citizen knew he had seen literary history pass another milestone. For last week a much-enduring traveler, world-famed but long an outcast, landed safe and sound on U. S. shores. His name was Ulysses...
...have made to Russia" and flayed the Bullitt report as a "tissue of lies." The net result of Diplomat Bullitt's activities was to furnish Republican Senators additional ammunition with which to de feat ratification of the peace treaty. But for speaking his mind he became a diplomatic outcast, with every Wilsonian Democrat ascribing his behavior to personal spite and sore-headedness...
...letter from Maryknoll Sisters in Honolulu, that Father d'Orgueval, too, may now begin his sermons, "We lepers." There is little chance for his recovery. Father Sweeney felt sure that Father d'Orgueval exposed himself by moving freely among the lepers to make them feel less outcast. Father Sweeney set out last week to found in South China a leper colony to be maintained by U. S. Catholics...
Statesmen of the League Assembly filed with awful dignity last week into the flimsy hall put up by the City of Geneva for the Disarmament Conference (TIME, March 14, 1932). Sitting down at cheap pine desks, they prepared to make Imperial Japan such an outcast as no Great Power has ever been made before. In the Assembly lobby only Hugh S. Gibson, tall, sleek U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, was seen to smile at and briefly chat with small, tense Japanese Chief Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, a diplomatic Napoleon who knew he stood at Waterloo...
...when he declared: "It will do me no good to take my case, if I am robbed, into the [State] courts, so I'm going straight into the Senate." With sound-truck and ballyhoo Senator Long has been doing most of the talking for his man Overton. An outcast among regular Senate Democrats, Long flays Broussard for not favoring his plan "to break up big fortunes." He explains the Broussard opposition to Prohibition thus: "He was afraid enforcement of Prohibition would be so strict that he could not get his bottle. You will never wean Edwin from the bottle...