Word: affect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orleans, in hot August, was threatened with a streetcar strike. Workers and operators were deadlocked over a minor absurdity. The strike order was posted. City officials gnawed their lips and wondered warily how a tie-up would affect their political credit. Newspapers printed bulletins and pleaded editorially for a reconciliation; pleaded wisely, impartial and aloof, but without much effect, as is the way with newspapers. Then occurred an episode unusual to modern journalism. Away from his piled-up desk in Union Street strode Editor Marshall Ballard of the New Orleans Item-Tribune. Like any able editor, he had followed...
...Metz, President Doumergue deplored last week the continued weakness of the franc, lauded "the courageous efforts now being made toward stabilization" (TIME, May 31) and concluded his address with a dramatic warning: "If these efforts prove futile, France alone will not go down! Such a catastrophe would seriously affect the world economic situation for many years...
...this state of affairs leaves no hope that the Committee of the international Chamber of Commerce will materially affect the present equilibruim, it does not deny its usefulness for the future. Now, it can only encourage an international outlook. But after years of careful investigating and recording, it will have at band convincing data to assist a comparatively persuadable world. At least this is the hopeful view of the matter. And it is well to hope that the present will give way, under the strain to something sounder...
...folly of which none but the sphinxlike brotherhoods could testify. So closely are their secrets kept that even the janitors of their sanctuaries must be made members and sworn to silence. So jealously are their very names preserved that the members, even as middle-aged and greying men, will affect deafness or stony inattention when an outsider utters a word or question relevant to the subject. If the reference or question is pressed, the initiate displays either irritation or chilling dignity and often moves away, leaving spectators either amused or awed that any rites and mysteries can so bind civilized...
...flair for the shallow and the flippant. Ever since, F. Scott Fitzgerald we have had a series of sophomoric novel writers who spill a lot of ink, twist. Their words into a cross-word puzzle pattern, and sell their products under the name of literature to the thousands who affect. Sophistication because they lack understanding...