Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand the report does not in fact smell of "British hypocrisy" though angry Indians are sure to proclaim a veritable stench. Startling and definitely courageous is the proposal that the police - always the subject most rigidly "reserved" to British administration under Dyarchy - shall now be placed within the scope of native officialdom. Today the governor of a province may not appoint a native as his minister of police, but under the Commission's plan he could, and as time passed he would gradually be expected and finally forced by public opinion to appoint a native...
...name an art critic? An art critic is a public commentator, supposedly invested by virtue of his learning and taste with the right to interpret the esthetic trend to the commonalty, to denounce that which he considers bad and proclaim that which he considers good. In any society pretending to cultivation and beauty, the position of art critic should obviously command renown and respect. Yet who can name an art critic...
...Philadelphia, a crowd of 250 marched to City Hall to proclaim : "While the manufacturers are reaping huge profits and Mayor Mackey goes on vacation trips, there are 200,000 unemployed workers in the city." Timing their demonstration with the return of Mayor Mackey from the West Indies, they tried to force their way into his office, had a 15-minute tussle with 150 policemen, retreated leaving placards, Communist circulars that warned of a nation-unemployment demonstration...
...five children into two classes, those of his First Series, those of his Second Series. All are of the same mother (TIME, Sept. 16). Edda is a stalwart young woman whose semi-public position has given her excuse to throw aside the traditional Italian woman's modesty and proclaim with her father: "Whoever is not a Father...
...District Attorney of Middlesex County will have to proclaim his opinion of the cop. Numerous others, who were asleep and blind for years while crooked agents of the Watch and Ward Society were operating in Greater Boston grew hot with indignation when an agent did what he was paid to do without trying to blackmail the bookseller. Why are they now comatose...