Word: suppressions
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...Philippe Barrès, son of Maurice Barrès (late author-orator) then defined the spirit of the new Fascism as "Faith in France . . . and a deep disgust with parliamentarianism." Declared M. Georges Valois, Nationalist economist: "Our work will be . . . to suppress parliament and give a leader to the national state. . . . In replacing the parliamentary form of government, only one of two new forms is possible-Communism or Fascism. Can there be any choice? . . . The financial recovery of France can be accomplished only by a dictator of finances, who, it is easy to perceive, must be necessarily a political...
...apart from the question of right, Dean Troxell's action is even more reprehensible on grounds of expediency. Even if Stephenson's editorial were a breach of discipline, courtesy, and good taste, as is asserted on quite doubtful grounds, it was extremely unwise to suppress it on that account. Good taste rests upon something universal in men, and when its canons are disregarded in editorial writing such infraction is in itself quite sufficient to nullify the effect of what one says with one's readers. Even if the faculty's contention be granted then, to suspend Stephenson...
...Passed to suppress British sailors who had mutinied at Sheerness and Portsmouth during the war with France...
...something to keep the police of Washington, D. C, busy in the summer, someone exhumed last week an old order forbidding "indecent music" (from the context evidently referring to music without words). There was some diversity of opinion as to what sort of music the police were supposed to suppress...
...conscience' sake spare a man from the gossip of his neighbors concerning his financial inability, yet tear out his vitals by publishing the disgrace of a loved one. A woman's financial standing is held inviolate, but the same instrument which protects her name in that respect would not suppress her moral downfall if public record were made of the fact...