Word: boojums
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Since statements of this kind seem to be of value in keeping Dictator Stalin in power, and since he is the most "conservative" leader in Russia at present, this picturing of Britain as a frightful Boojum seemed unfortunate rather than alarming...
Significance. The Mexican religious struggle has settled down to a war of propaganda. The encyclical did not scruple to invoke a boojum like "un-Americanism"-which has the power of all nationalist invocations down to "Hawaii for the Hawaiians" and "Yap for the Yaps." In the war of propaganda between Mexico City and Rome the latter is now leading heavily in the U. S. with its two million encyclical letter pamphlets following closely the recently distributed legal indictment of Mexico by William Dameron Guthrie, Roman Catholic President of the Association of the Bar of New York City (TIME...
...security markets of the world, a possibility under Article VII of the agreement. French fear that Germans might eventually acquire these bonds, thus putting France under a sort of fiscal vassalage to her worst enemies, was thereby allayed. Since this particular "emotional factor" had loomed like a boojum, and threatened to rouse Frenchmen unalterably against ratification, to eliminate it was of paramount import...
...student opinion must seem wasted, that opinion itself farcical, and the spirit that offered it one of hypocrisy. He has sailed many months, he has sailed many weeks over uncharted seas of hypothesis on a search for the Snark of serious student opinion, and lo! it is only a Boojum. He may well be excused if he decides that his is a thankless task, and determines that the student should be taught rather than educated...