Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But the last half of the second stanza, which last week caused Mr. Snowden to take refuge in the tune, is (when mis chievously interpreted, as no loyal sub ject should think of doing) an explicit intimation that the King is not even smart enough to get himself out of...
He was the great & virtuous Yen Hsi-shan, long "model Governor" of Shansi Province, now defeated, selfexiled. Some of the "attendants" said that Marshal Yen yearns to tour first Japan, next the U. S., will shortly do so. Others said he will settle down at Beppu, Japan's Karlsbad...
Farrar's life is the perfect counterpart of her leisurely career.* She has an apartment in Manhattan, is often seen at concerts, the theatre, the Metropolitan which she now likens to a Ford establishment. The warm months she spends at Ridgefield, Conn., plays wholeheartedly the role of country gentlewoman...
Artist Brown draws as he talks, crudely, positively, in a manner that admits of no erasures, no changes. He applies color in broad flat washes. Critics find his matter pleasing, his manner undeveloped. They take refuge in the safe expression, "promising."
Many schools apparently produce cults in which the virtue of loyalty is regarded as primitive and unintelligent and patriotism the refuge of the feebleminded. This has considered pedagogical encouragement and inspiration, and young people, highly conscious of their liberalism, respond actively. That old notions are discreditable may be quite apparent...