Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...60th birthday last week. Like royalty, he celebrated his birthday by a two-day national party-speeches, parades, festivals. The party wound up with a giant ball in Manila to raise-in more democratic tradition-anti-tuberculosis funds. To punctuate the festivities he addressed 40,000 students & teachers. His subject: the state of the Philippine soul...
...last week museum and cat were the subject of public clamor. Members of the Women's Chamber of Commerce called on the mayor for repeal of the special tax from which the museum derived $239,000 last year. The city director of public welfare proposed diversion of the tax to hospitals. Pickets sweltered at City Hall complaining that the cat was an affront to Labor. Six St. Louis members of the American Artists' Congress chimed in with a demand that the museum buy "indigenous" art. "It is hard for many of us," said they, "to see the lasting...
...city folks who go to Goshen as a last resort of horse & buggy days will remember last week's Hambletonian as the one with the best weather. But to seasoned trotting men, the story of Lawrence Sheppard's master stroke of horse trading will serve as a subject of discussion for many a dull winter evening...
...year or two later -just after Marie has made the King angry by calling Madame du Barry a streetwalker-they meet again, at the house of Count Mercy (Henry Stephenson). This time they settle down for a heart-to-heart chat, in the course of which, touching on the subject of museums. Axel enlarges on the reverence called forth by relics of the past. When Marie Antoinette says, "Do you think-one hundred years hence-some Swedish gentleman wandering in Paris may smile over a relic of Marie Antoinette's, a miniature perhaps, or a ring?" the count agrees...
Next to himself, a novelist's favorite subject is his family history. It is also a subject demanding exceptional talent. Thus, although family novels are among the most plentiful, a really good one-a Buddenbrooks or a Forsyte Saga-is rare. Run-of-the-mine family novels are likely to hold more interest for fellow members of the family than for strangers -a fault which is sometimes due to the fact that the family is dull, more often due to a writer's family discretion...