Word: prating
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...hide their dissent in a cowardly cloak of generality! Yes, let them define the issues! We have been specific in our affirmative action. Let them be specific in their negative attack!" Shackles for Liberty. "Our resplendent economic autocracy does not want to return to that individualism of which they prate, even though the advantages under that system went to the ruthless and the strong. They realize that in 34 months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a people's government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political...
...persons "located in Cambridge" considered the editorial quoted from the Yale News excellent and to the point, and wish that if the CRIMSON must pursue this altruism that it would honor its subscribers with a few editorials of that type. For when the CRIMSON begins to prate about social equality and principles, one is led to believe that the pernicious influence of dilettante socialism is eating into its abode on Plympton Street and to wish that the CRIMSON, too, could be given a new building. Faithfully yours, M. Fred Loewenstein...
...ancient, shady ancestry is the Devil. As Egypt's Serpent Apap, he crawled at dark by the Nile while flames shuddered in his thin trail. In Babylonia, even fools dared not prate of him when he was known as "the lady Nina." His was the god-defiance of Prometheus, the malice of Ahriman. Still as Siva he destroys...
...practical effect, if not the technical process, of denying Negroes a share in the government is, of course, a violation of the 14th and 18th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. It has become trite to point out the inconsistency of such nullification by citizens who prate about the sanctity of the 18th Amendment. Last week's dark plaintiffs in Texas will not have time before November to carry their cases to the U. S. Supreme Court. But predictions were made that when the appeals are heard, the South's constitutional dilemma will grow more acute than...
...stuff of romance is here, but not in its best manner. Messers. Bishop and Brodeur have a brave story to tell; it is a pity they have not told it more skillfully. They have chosen to adopt a pseudo-heroic style. Their characters prate mightily of great deeds for mother Britain, messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger falls swooning at the king's feet, rude soldiers in battle and Roman citizens on the streets blurt out heroic speeches tuned to the rhythm of a Cicero. It is all very exciting, but seldom convincing. One suspects that...