Word: bostonianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, dignified, 200-lb. Bostonian with a cropped mustache, Banker Perkins graduated from Harvard when Harvard had a "Sound Money Campaign Club" and a "Total Abstinence League." He was a member of neither. Captain of the 1898 crew, First Marshal of his class (and president the three previous years), he went to work for Walter Baker & Co. (chocolate), quit in 1905 to become a vice president of a Boston bank...
...course, to include Germany with its scientific progress, New York, and so on, in a remark of this kind, is conclusive proof that the editor is in harmony with a page from Stephen Leacock's fun book, on which a map of the world appears according to a Bostonian. Of course, it is a map of Boston...
...many supersensitive people, he is neither polite nor rational. In the first place he insuits a quite considerable body of Middlewestern Harvard men past and present. This we can forgive him on the score of what is, apparently, an over excitable adolescence. We are surprised, however, that even a Bostonian should have such highly romantic notions about our lineage. This writer seems surprisingly ignorant (for a young man of his type) of the numerous connections between Chicago families and the best of his own local deities. Admitting the magnificent abnegation (not, of course, in the material sense) of these Bostonians...
...that the traditional gentleman is careful with whom he draws his sword. If he were, he would realize that this slashing of thin air in defence of President Lowell and with such an adversary as the Chicago Tribune is unseemly. Will not this last reproach suffice for any good Bostonian...
...salaries; last year before he took charge they were cut 10% and another 15%. But he has cut personnel 25%, has sharply curtailed loans to independent planters from whom United Fruit buys bananas. He has revalued United Fruit properties at $50,000,000 less than the Bostonian reckoning, thereby enabling the company to save millions of dollars in depreciation charges and to show correspondingly higher earnings. Since tariffs have practically eliminated profits from Cuban sugar and Depression has shrunk the profits of the 98 steamships of the Great White Fleet, nearly all the company's revenue has come from...