Word: pronunciamento
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...goal is the healthy mind in the healthy body. This is not only a creed but a way of life. Sun, light and air are vital conditions to human wellbeing. We believe these elements are insufficiently used in present-day life, to the detriment of physical and moral health."-Pronunciamento of the International Nudist Conference...
Proponents of 150-pound football refuse for the second time to be silenced by the discouraging pronunciamento of the H.A.A., and their petition for the revival of a lightweight squad continues to attract names testifying to the numerical strength of their cause. As expressed by Mr. Bingham, the foremost point in the opposition is the failure to get any competition other than the final game with Yale. Considering the number of eligible institutions in the immediate vicinity, and the opportunities afforded by eight House teams, all within calling distance, it seems that some part of the managerial board is fallen...
...Night (Universal) is, as the title suggests, a timidly salacious little comic-strip, showing that its producers do not believe Tsar Will Hays's latest pronunciamento that "The general public today demand higher, not lower . . . standards from the screen." It shows an overgrown lout named Ronald Colgate (George "Slim" Summerville) trying to escape from the apron strings of an idiotically devoted mother (Laura Hope Crews) long enough to pay court to the nurse (Zasu Pitts) in a department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their...
...March 1933 he issued the first pronunciamento of the "Committee for the Nation" (see p. 45), probably the most far-reaching demand for inflation yet formulated by responsible businessmen: devaluation of the dollar and "enforced increase of commodity prices...
...week a mildly Fascist group of veterans of the Irish Free State army and the prede Valera Republican army was organized as "The Free State Army Comrades Association." President: Dr. Thomas O'Higgins, member of the Dail and good friend of former President William T. Cosgrave. Their first pronunciamento attacked Communism "or any disguised form of it introduced surreptitiously into the country." In addition the Comrades Association attacked long-necked President de Valera and his tariff war with Great Britain: "We regard as charged with extremely dangerous potentialities the new fashion of branding as traitors certain public men with...