Word: condemnation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly to be hoped the American nation will rise up to condemn such unwarranted attack upon a defenseless man and force the book's retirement from circulation...
...first picture (Mother and Child) to Edward Staff, A. R. A. Two years later another picture (A Cup of Tea by Mr. Knight) was sold. Next, they went to Holland where their work became dusky, grey, contemplative. Stubbornly refusing to paint pictures solely that they might sell, ana thereby condemn the creators to continue painting in the same mood, they went to Cornwall. On this stormy, cloudswept coast they discovered color, gaiety. Ten years passed and galleries began to buy their pictures. They won scholarships, medals, salon prizes. They are now represented in famed museums, chiefly English, all over...
History alone can determine the full significance of this act; opinion may condemn it as politically immoral. The document was signed, critics agree, not by a kingly king but by a puppet of the Dictator. Moreover, it was signed on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the suppression of the constitution and the virtual abolition of the Cortes (Parliament) (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). In its implications it is clearly designed to perpetuate the Primo de Rivera régime...
Meanwhile, Irish societies in the District of Columbia began a na tion-wide campaign to have such cinemas removed from theatres. The Maryland convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians adopted two resolutions: 1) to condemn cinemas belittling the Irish; 2) to oppose the entry of the U. S. into the World Court...
...would give it countenance. It is the duty of every citizen to set his face sternly against anything of the kind. It is a crime that cuts to the root of all representative government, and no one who realizes what it means could do otherwise than condemn and deplore...