Word: sacrosanctity
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...Marine Navy Pharmacist's Mate Horace Albert Thomson obliged with a blood transfusion. Instead of making a formal apology the Japanese rebuked the British Ambassador for not having a Union Jack spread on the roof of his car. The attitude of Whitehall to this attack on the sacrosanct person of their Ambassador was "one of unbounded exasperation." Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden promised to take "appropriate measures," dispatched a note to Tokyo...
...appearance of the Student Council questionnaire officially opens the long-expected investigation into the subject of private tutoring schools. Hitherto the whole subject has been treated with a sort of hush-hush secrecy, as if the famed "cram" parlors were sacrosanct pillars of Harvard society and above the taint of investigation or suspicion. With the enrollment lists to these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct...
...Schacht would not for the time being devalue the mark which in any case has been for years a purely artificial currency. But what about the lira? Would Premier Benito Mussolini, who placed the lira on gold in the days when Calvin Coolidge was President and the Gold Standard sacrosanct, recognize that a page of economic history has turned and the entire world must seek readjustment...
...that such laws interfere with the so-called "liberty of contract" which is protected by the "due process" of the fifth and fourteenth amendments. Liberty is taking on strange disguises indeed, when a state which tries to prevent an employer from exploiting women is violating the liberty of some sacrosanct individual...
...talk of revolution, civil war. Ben saw his chance. He went more than ever into society, turned his pen to Tory pamphleteering, got himself favorably known by the right people, finally stood for Parliament. He was four times defeated before he got in, but since he had made the sacrosanct Carlton Club he knew he had practically ar rived. Meantime he had made another conquest, of the beautiful Henrietta who was his mistress for two years. He broke with her at last because she would not understand that the Career came first...