Word: treasonous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profane discords emanating from the sanctum of the "oldest college daily" came at a particularly unfortunate time. On the day before Yale sends an army into the field to debate the qualifications of the two major presidential candidates, treason is found at the very heart of the home garrison. Even the modest veiling with a dash is insufficient to conceal the glaring weakness of undergraduate support tendered the Yale men on the eve of battle. Those who know the real story behind the debaters appearances tonight, will have trouble in back the emotion sure to be evoked by this latest...
...intellectuals. Artists, scientists, philosophers, and poets, men of whom a certain degree of universality and detachment from material objects has been expected from earliest times, have become violent partisans of this or that nationality and of this or that national culture. Therein lies what M. Benda terms the Treason of the Intellectuals. That many of these intellectuals have lost their broader out-look in a militant patriotism is undeniable; that this should be regarded as an act of treason is more than doubtful. M. Benda's readers will possibly prefer to regard it merely as an indication of the extraordinary...
...yodeling a plea for stout-hearted men made tuneful by Sigmund Romberg, Robert (Robert Halliday) and his assistant (William O'Neal) organize their golden expedition. Robert is not content with merely this adventure; in making pretty passes at the hand of a charming aristocrat, he is arrested for treason. On the way to France where Robert is to be punished, the heroine-aristocrat helps to save him and put him in command of the boat on which he was a prisoner. The boat then turns to a peaceful island and its occupants set up their communistic colony. The father...
...Hearst then elaborated the fact, which every one knows, that the People, not the President, alone can alter the law or the Constitution. He called it "treason" for a Nominee to propose that the law or Constitution should be changed...
...Butler cried: "If that be treason, make the most of it!" But Dr. Butler did not say he would vote for Smith...