Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condition of international law is far from satisfactory at the present," Mr. Wickersham continued. "Problems of a most embarrassing nature are constantly arising, and sometimes constitute serious menaces to the legal harmony of government. Hitherto there has been no single system of law whereby countries can judge their cases. Custom and a wide variety of precedents have been practically the only criteria for the just determination of conduct. Obviously conflict was the inevitable result of such contradictory standards...
...League of Nations gave serious consideration to this problem, and appointed various committees to investigate different aspects of the situation. These smaller groups made painstaking studies of the several general types of international problems and reported on them to the League, explaining why they were matters which could be codified. Their reports were sent to the governments of the world to learn their reactions. This process was repeated until the issues concerned became definitely stated...
Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov arose, and in the course of welcoming the plenipotentiaries of Rumania, Poland, Latvia and Esthonia, referred to Rumania as "a country with which we had serious difficulties-difficulties not settled by this protocol...
...Delaware so daringly that an issue of the Lampoon was barred from the U. S. mails. But the anti-Harkness issue seemed to transcend all Lampoon offenses against good taste and sense, and the reason for this seemed to be that the matter in hand was, for once, serious and tangible...
Prizes, however, were awarded to work in fresh, distinctive modes. Robert Henri, bright, sketchy painter of children whose eyes would pop at dolls and toy engines, whose lips would pucker wetly at lollypops, won the Temple Gold Medal for painting with his fluffy, serious Wee Woman. A lean, angular and sour ancient in a dark figured dress, called Madame du Tarte, won for Richard Lahey the Carol Beck Medal for portraiture. Bruce Moore's Black Panther, in savage, undulating stride, won the George D. Widener Memorial Gold Medal for sculpture...