Word: bandwagons
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...snubs and the flattery. The Executive Mansion was filled with her friends of Oliver street days and she had neither time nor inclination to cultivate a new circle of acquaintances. Al himself delivered one sharp rebuke to a local social leader who tried to climb on the bandwagon, but Katie simply didn't care. She had what she wanted...
...publications once chifly with in barren intellectualism have hastened to clamber aboard the bandwagon of Literature for the Many. A mild miracle has taken place, for with incentives quite mercenary the editors have done a literary good turn...
...Came from the ranks?bellboy, newsboy, bootblack, hotel waiter, head waiter, cowboy, miner, newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, president of the Negro Press Association, and was elected four times by acclamation. ... I put in our splendid education and health programs. I stand on my record. Let others climb on the bandwagon! Organization is my slogan...
...attitude was restrained almost to indifference. Political advisers in Texas are said to have cautioned Governor Moody against being drawn into anything approaching an endorsement of any candidate, presumably on the theory that there is no point in climbing into a wagon before you know it is the bandwagon...
...matter of fact, the "Americana" formula is no invention of H. L. Mencken's, though he it is who made its fame. The New Republic (liberal weekly) has long had a department called "The Bandwagon" wherein are reprinted, without sarcastic blurbs, excerpted blatancies and stupidities from public orations, sermons, editorials, church bulletins, interviews...