Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...further and involving a tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars a day. Increasing this wage by sixty percent would, in a short time, at the expense of the public, breed a new stock of millionaires of the leisure class. Do the mine workers really believe they are going to better their conditions by their demands? Do they not realize that the loss they produce, the less other industries will produce? Scarcity of production and our heavy shipments to Europe...
...Laski will explain his stand and elucidate clearly the principles he talks for. There may be some extenuating circumstances hidden from the unenlightened. If he cannot wholly justify his course of action, or takes it from love of the bizarre, let us shun him as a "Boudoir Bolshevist," a breed against which we have been warned. D. H. WORRALL...
...terrible instance of one of our own American shortcomings is illuminated. These outlaws (the Bolsheviki) are largely Russian Jews, whom we permitted to breed anarchy in the slums of New York. We have long had the problem of the city slum, and we have failed to deal with it. We have acquiesced in a twofold condition whereby great hordes of foreigners are unable--sometimes unwilling--to live according to American standards of living, and who, by their degradation no less than by their words, have poisoned the minds of other foreigners against this nation, which once had been the ideal...
Some time ago, a gentleman wrote a letter which eulogized as martyrs certain Columbia professors who, if I remember rightly, were supposed to be of the same breed as Scott Nearing. The writer's defence was that anyone is entitled to free speech. I wrote an answer at time; it never appeared in the CRIMSON...
...seats and the fact that the public is using a little more discretion in selecting its amusement, managers are doing themselves a dangerous turn to offer such plays as "Her Regiment" as first-class productions. This play might be made successful if a number of musical-comedy artists, the breed still exists, were gathered together and a large amount of reconstructing was done. As it is, it is a dangerous vehicle to exhibit slender or average talents...