Word: sacrosanctity
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...vast is the project, so complex the factors, that Nominee Hoover might well have wished to avoid stump discussion of Boulder Dam. But Senator Johnson, his alleged ally, without whose friendship California might not be Hooverized, last fortnight cried out that "no man on earth is so sacrosanct but that his position on the Power Trust and Boulder Dam should be made plain" (TIME, Aug. 13). And so, after his multitudinous reception in Los Angeles last week, Nominee Hoover mounted the city hall steps and said...
...Johnson to some Los Angeles lunchers last week, "on which no man, I do not care a rap who he is, should be silent. It will be the issue in the next Senate, when the fight for Boulder Dam will be up again. No man on earth is so sacrosanct but that his position on the Power Trust and Boulder Dam should be made plain to the people of the United States...
...moral aspect, therefore, the objector may well confine himself; it betrays a sufficient number of facts for discussion; on it alone may a solid case be built. Does inviolate tradition condone all? Does an air of the sacrosanct vindicate every blemish on the tabernacle? The reply is obviously one which must bow to the canons of good taste. Until the daily vaudeville ceases the public will be expected to stop, to stare, perhaps to snicker in adolescent fashion. But the public stops not to be entertained--these diversions have no relation to the word--but rather in amazement...
...Jove, Author Halliburton explains, angrily tossing thunderbolts because a whimsical, gay, incorrigible, dramatic, inspired, etc. young Amercian is at the beetling, rugged, sacrosanct, fierce, rugged, granite pinnacle of Mt. Olympus and proposes to spend the night...
...formulation of his education has become increasingly more general due to the cumulative effect of a legion of small incidents demonstrating the possibilities of such student activity. It is hardly too much to say that only with those who see education as something dead and sacred a holy mystery sacrosanct from inquiring eyes, a cut to be accepted with quick faith and stifled question, will such a venture as the Confidential Guide now find disfavor...