Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born in Canada under conditions which made me a British subject. Later on, I became automatically Americanized when my father became an American citizen. This made me a citizen of two countries simultaneously. According to British law, I was British. According to American law, I was American. Lawyers differ even now as to which nationality I belong to technically. I travel under a British passport and always mean the Americans when I say "we"-not such a wholly illogical position for one of the earliest members of the English Speaking Union...
...Hoover calls Prohibition a 'noble experiment'. . . .* I am compelled to ask, 'When is the experiment going to start?' Not long since I had a communication from a very distinguished employee of the Department of Justice on this very subject ... I can't think of anything more noble to do with this noble experiment than to start in the City of Washington...
...Legislature of Western Australia. Sir William has admitted that he was "guided" by the intimations of the British Government, although technically he was acting only for the Crown. Thus "allegiance to the Crown" is a suave phrase under which the Dominions are left apparently free but actually subject to slight curbs from the Prime Minister and Parliament of Great Britain...
...flat emotions; a young musician's painful maladjustment on returning home from the greater world (Paris left-bank); a young girl's brooding over an implied sadistic horror-these are subject to Author Wescott's youthful scrutiny. He has a marked gift for creating atmospheric effects, and a keen sense of human drama ("In a Thicket," "Like a Lover," "The Sailor"); but, immature in his aping, he caters too much to Proust and Joyce...
...experimental period, painful to subject and clinician, will continue until cinemactors have been soundly trained, and technique (to eliminate such faults as improperly timed lip-moving and speech) has been developed...