Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. He is a prelate in high favor with the rich Anglo-U. S. Catholics of Paris, and he won the general gratitude of Frenchmen during the War by tireless organizing of efficient charities. As a matter of personal taste and sympathy Cardinal Dubois is known to have a penchant for the Royalists, among whom he has numerous close friends. As Cardinal and Archbishop, however, his duty was clear, last week, and he obeyed the Pope's orders to excommunicate with promptness and despatch...
...hall each worthy book as a new masterpiece--even though the foundation of one's criticism be admittedly purely personal and individual. Professor Phelps is undoubtedly the target for the Nation's rebuke, and it must be admitted that Professor Phelps has given sufficient cause on certain occasions. His penchant for superlatives has undermined his readers' faith in his often valuable criticism. He is not alone, however, John Erskine might well cry mea culpa to the Nation's charges; and so, to a much lesser degree, might Robert Littell...
Until Lenin died, Trotsky's authority and prestige were supreme. Young, with a penchant for sarcasm, he made many enemies. After Lenin's death, Trotsky's political demise set in. He has held himself up as the disciple and interpreter of Leninism; the men in power have regarded him as an upstart and a renegade. The difference is not merely political; behind all there lies an inscrutable 'tissue of venemous personal hatred. For the nonce, Trotsky is in the discard. Who can say but that the fate of Robespierre and Danton hangs like Damocles' sword...
Omitting all reference to the desirability of any sort of public revelry in connection with the name of Harvard one may confine himself to a discussion of the decency of the affair. Enough has been said--perhaps too much--concerning Harvard's penchant for the quiet, the restrained, the indifferent. The CRIMSON firmly believes, however, that if any attitude is typical of the University it is this one. The chasm of trite collegiatism is too deep to warrant any precarious flirtations with its slopes...
Count Luckner seemed to have a penchant for disorderly conduct on the high seas from the time he first became cabin boy after running away from the patrician respectability of his home. Like the hero of the Aeneid, he suffered many hardships upon land and sea, at one time even becoming, as did John Masefield and an equally August Figure in American poetry, interested in keeping a saloon. It might be ungracious to continue the parallel of Mr. Masefield and the A. F. further, but it would appear that Count Luckner drank up most of his profits and even part...