Word: condemned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...king upon the vacant throne of Hungary. Count Bethlen himself referred to the counterfeiters in Parliament as "misguided patriots." Regent Horthy refused to refer to them at all-a most significant gesture on the part of a "ruler" who should nominally have been the first to condemn such acts. The identity of the individual in whose favor the putsch was to have been launched remained obscure. Regent Horthy and Count Bethlen both appear to be badly tarred with the counterfeiters' brush; but the Regent is a Fascist and the Count...
...Churchmen who condone Sabbath-breaking are as wicked in God's sight as bootleggers, robbers, bank breakers, adulterers, drunkards and liars' whom they condemn...
...unbuttoned his shirt, baring a chest mottled with a biblical growth of curly hair. Then he mounted his pulpit. "I want to show the girls," he announced to his gasping, giggling, shrinking congregation, "how they look to others when . . . they wear short, sleeveless, low-necked frocks. I strongly . . . condemn such costumes. They bring tears to the eyes of the girls' elders...
...Blake toward your recent editorials, may I take issue? Your editorial page and in fact the whole paper has shown more alertness, vigor, and originality than at any time in the past six years. Mr. Blake must be accustomed to rather dull and obvious editorial fare so to condemn intelligent journalism exercising a legitimate right of leadership. Very truly yours, L. B. Young...
...many the play will be an adventure in the worried field of the inexplicable. Most minds will not understand and will therefore condemn it. Almost any fine forward-looking endeavor in the arts runs this maddening risk. For the rest the play will be a memorable experience...