Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peasants in the fields glared back at the chateau last week, for they knew that scattered about in its dismal rooms was a varied assortment of once eminent French leaders. They might be scapegoats, they might face dishonor they did not warrant, but to the little people of France it looked at last as if someone was going to catch hell for the social, political and military debacle that culminated in what was grandiosely called the Battle of France...
...many drastic moments in the history of western culture, but the present college year opens under a shadow of a threat never before present. War is not the worst possiblity we face; the worst is the complete triumph of totalitarianism, and at this moment it is sufficiently real to warrant every man's most earnest consideration...
...Bourbon, Queen of Spain, had been until lately in one of Europe's ex-royal families. The Titian, Portrait of a Nobleman, came from a Vienna museum. Said Mr. Rose: "The money that I have made has come from the public. If my collection grows important enough to warrant turning it over to the public after my death, I think that would be the logical thing to do. I believe that anyone with ready cash may have unusual opportunities during the next few years to acquire important paintings." Reason: only foreign exchange (preeminently dollars) can now get pictures...
...intelligent remark, are combined in such a way as to form a vocal accompaniment to the thematic display of Pablo Picasso's paintings in the Boston Museum. Picasso is not, as one critic put it, an "enfant terrible"; he is a very fine artist who is intelligent enough to warrant being called the most original cclectic in the history...
Ayers and his friends read these sizzling words, saw pink. The Governor himself swore out and signed a warrant charging that this was criminal libel. Complainants: Governor Ayers, Ben Moulton, Senator Woods, Senator Haight. Tip Reynolds was arrested at Three Forks, taken to Bozeman, 30 miles away, locked up in the Gallatin County jail...