Word: bigote
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...letter of Mr. E. P. Holton ... is the idea of a narrow-minded bigot who is never satisfied unless he is sticking his nose in someone else's business. This is the one thing that people in this world need to overcome if we expect any peace in the future. How can anyone suggest a fair payment of a nation's debts by subjecting a small minority of that nation's people to live under another flag and a different form of government...
...weeks by G-men. But Black's appointment to the Supreme Court was not even referred to the Department of Justice. The President may not have known the general Washington belief . . . but he very well knew that, with or without a hobgoblin disguise, Mr. Black is a bigot...
...seven candidates were run, exclusively in the West, by the not-yet-national Social Credit Party of Alberta's new radiorating Premier William Aberhart, a great admirer of Father Coughlin, a restive disciple of the calm British originator of the Social Credit theory, Major Douglas, and a political bigot who makes his followers take vows to read nothing and listen to nothing uttered by anyone against either himself or Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2 & 16). The Aberhart party, victorious in Alberta, offered to pay all Canadians $25 per month in credit if and when a Social Credit Government...
...thought it nonsense that bureaucrats should interfere with art. After listing the slogans ("Art is to be wielded as a weapon" et al.} of the [Communist] Artists' International, Eastman explodes: "Could any set of ideas more neatly summarize the attitude of the vicariously infantile and office-holding bigot who calls himself the proletariat, not because he feels with or for the members of the working class, but because it swells his importance and accords with his intimate knowledge of the nature and purposes of the universe...
...America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett as Wrestling came nearest to saving the performance. He struggled bravely to make the audience sympathize with the soul-wracked bigot. He sang richly, made words intelligible. Sample from the dream scene...