Word: pronunciamento
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something must be done to make the girls a little more contented with the fate that brings fifty per cent of them to Harvard husbands. A careful analysis of the recent pronunciamento brings to light the fact, concealed by long rhapsodic animadversions on the oadet's medieval atmosphere of chivalry, that Harvard men never learn to pick up their rooms...
...openly expressed, lest observers from other nations should form the erroneous opinion that sentiment was at times divided on major issues in our national politics, would have been a succulent morsel to the political bear-baiters of yesteryear. But they are dead, and in this day and age a pronunciamento from the White House Spokesman becomes imbued with that same mystic sanctity which enshrouds its author...
Winthrop Rutherfurd married in 1920; now lives in Manhattan. In terviewed, he admitted he "admired" Miss Vanderbilt at the date in question; declined further comment. With these distressing rev elations coming thick and fast, the Protestant half of Manhattan recalled that there was still a pronunciamento to come, a review of all the premises and conclusions which would undoubtedly clear the air, explain all. This would be the self-volunteered statement promised by Protestant Episcopal Bishop Manning. The Bishop, Society remembered, had once known sharp-tongued Mrs. Belmont; had excluded her name, as divorcee, from the year book...
Patriotic pessimism is a rare attitude. Even in the most discouraging narrative of national failure, one almost always finds a hopeful note. Apparently, the philosophical fallacy that progress is inevitable has made a deep impression on the minds of men. The latest pronunciamento of Dean Ralph Inge, the "gloomy Dean" of newspaper headlines, contains a healthy antidote to such universal optimism. In his recent book, he prophesies the gradual decl no of England exhausted by internal and external...
...first of four parts of Ladislas St. Reymont's chief work. "Autumn, volume one of The Peasants," said Publisher Knopf some weeks ago, "would appear to be undoubtedly the greatest Polish novel of the Century." The award of the Nobel Prize goes far to support its publisher's pronunciamento...