Word: bogeying
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...many states it became a political bogey. The peak of its power, it appears, came in about 1923. Soon, however, it began to disintegrate; scandal and dissension seized upon it internally; rival organizations sprang up?the Independent Klan, the Knights of the Flaming Sword, etc.?and in some places community pressure attacked it from without...
Engaged. Over the hazards of heat, an inadequate conception of what is a Scottish maid, a purely imaginative conception of what is the Scottish dialect and bunkers of arid waste in the first act, W. S. Gilbert's "most famed" comedy does it in two under bogey. In fact, one might be tempted to say that nothing like such perfect work as appears in the end of the second act has been done on the musical comedy links this season. Then it is that Cheviot Hill, so excellently done by J. M. Kerrigan, a gentleman of property...
Significance. Mothers used to say "Brigham Young" instead of "bogey man" to scare their offspring. Now, soothed by the years, they are hardly aware that some 400,000 Mormons still revere the much-married patriarch who managed people by telling them to believe in him or "go to Hell across lots." This patriarch's works constitute the most vivid chapter in native religious history and an impressive section of the chronicle of the Far West...
...bogey of "too much extra-curricular activity" is too familiar to need much discussion. Everyone admits that outside activities have been over-emphasized, but educators, interpreting these activities through eyes trained under different conditions, are too much inclined to magnify the evil. But the charge of insincerity in colleges is more serious. This "pretense of doing more than can actually be accomplished", to which Dr. Pritchett gives greatest prominence, is, after all, a charge that colleges do not really "train the habits and powers of the mind"--the aim of a liberal education according to Dr. Pritchett...
...there ever was a bogey snooping about Weld and Newell Boat Houses it will now have to take up quarters elsewhere. Every closet and recess in these buildings has been so aired and thrown open to the light that there is no longer any nook or cranny where it can hide. At the open meeting on yesterday Coach Stevens made it clear to candidates that crew at Harvard is crew for Harvard; that a single standard prevails in judging candidates; and that this standard is merit. No spoils system, no patronage, no closed shop. Every man who wants...