Word: bigot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criticism of Signor Croce is not warmed by the appreciative apathy of a Matthew Arnold. Like that of the pompous old English bigot, his criticism is the God-given and incontrovertible judgment of the dogmatist. He approaches his task with a theory to expound, and deaf to all confuting evidence, he picks and chooses and maintains his position...
Three times Madame Bigot Pemjean of Paris had Premier Herriot at her mercy, but she never shot. "He looked too nice", she said, surrendering her revolver to the police. Apparently there is not only honor among thieves, but sentiment among assassins. If other murderers follow the Paris fashion in this matter? their profession will be immediately raised in the public esteem...
...very intolerant people. The highest type belongs only to about 1 percent. 50 percent are a bunch of slaves to creeds and fears and superstitions. The rest, the so-called "irreligious" are not so bad off however. I refrain from condemning them. A religious from condemning them. A religious bigot is worse than an American heathen...
...long-awaited announcement of the Advocate's dry competition was made yesterday, proclaiming Miss Katherine Welling of New York the winner, with "Spigot-Bigot" the prize word...
Miss Katherine Greene Welling of New York City contributed the prize word "Spigot-Bigot" to the Advocate "Dry" Contest and, as a result, receives the $26 prize and the degree of "Summa cum Laude...