Word: voltairian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend of the court, Labor Lawyer Abraham Lincoln Wirin, who stands for everything the Times opposes. "Attorney T. B. Cosgrove for the Times," began Friend Wirin, "said yesterday that he considers it the finest daily journal printed in the English language. I consider it the worst." From this Voltairian beginning, Lawyer Wirin, appearing in behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, went on to a long and earnest defense of the Times's right to print whatever it likes unless there is "clear and imminent" danger to the Government or the courts. A brief in support of the Times...
...continental society than were bored by its ponderous length that the book soared into the best-selling class. Last week a sizable audience was waiting with shocking hopefulness for the sequel, Europa In Limbo. But purple passages in the latest Briffault were thin and few. An earnest, disillusioned, clumsily Voltairian novel, its lean streaks of perception were buried in thick stretches of unmuscled...