Word: bugaboo
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Tiddde-de-dumpty, tiddle-de-dee- The spider courted the frisky flea; Tiddle-de-dumpty, tiddle-de-doo- The flea ran off with the bugaboo...
...CHALLENGE OF ASIA-Stanley Rice-Scribner ($2.25). Once more the bugaboo of the Yellow Peril appears. The adjective yellow is admittedly loosely used, for the Asiatics are of a variety of hues. The author knows his subject, believes that the real challenge of Asia is concerned with dignity-a "desire that their voices shall count in the world's councils." The races of Asia mean to be respected; and, to ensure this, they aim to increase their material prosperity with the object of strengthening their political power. The white man evidently has the alternative of treating the yellow...
Those who are pulling for a reversal of football fortunes under the Fisher-Daly regime cannot but realize that the absence of Mike will mean the absence of one of the most distinctive features of Harvard cheering and the loss of an unfailing champion against the bugaboo of Harvard indifference...
...June of last year, he succeeded Premier Smuts (TIME, June 30) and with the help of the Labor Party mustered a majority in the House of Assembly. To get Labor's help, he was obliged to renounce any immediate effort towards secession; becoming Premier, he has buried this bugaboo, in many speeches has pronounced its funeral oration. It is therefore certain that he extends a welcome to the Prince of Wales not only in his own name but in the name of the Union...
First of all, Rear Admiral Phelps, speaking before the Women's Conference on National Defense, declared that "serious differences are brewing with England over shipping policies." This was a bugaboo so preposterous that Secretary Hughes saw fit to deny it promptly. Among his other ideas Admiral Phelps included a strange one, indeed: "These differences can be prevented from developing into a conflict only by a strong navy." Bismarck himself seems to be speaking. Yet the psychologists say that man learns from experience! Perhaps Admiral Phelps has forgotten those days before the war when nations piled up armament...