Word: bugaboos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue shirt of the thrifty American worker is perhaps the surest bulwark against the red shirt of Communism. A more liberal outlook on the part of the government toward social problems, backed by salutary neglect of Communist bugaboo, would tend to weaken the hold of revolutionary agitators America's industrial centers...
Ingenuity characterizes the efforts of the senior class of Grinnell College to secure for themselves positions after graduation. Apprehension, no doubt caused by the bugaboo Unemployment, has led them to advertise their talents in a booklet which they themselves have published. This is to be widely circulated among business firms throughout the middle West, and it contains the pictures, the vocational aspirations, and the collegiate records of the incipient crop of job applicants...
...sake." The story is trite, similar to any cinema of college life, and typical of the kind of stuff that appears in the popular fiction magazines. Even the indictment of athletics is outworn in this day when a change for the better has taken place and the football overemphasis bugaboo has been pretty well dispelled...
...tendency to accept the English ideal of playing the game for the game's sake: that it is better to lose a cleanly played good match than to win a poorly contested one. Such symptoms of saneness in the Harvard attitude toward football sufficiently dispel the bugaboo of overemphasis. Perhaps super-patriotism has become passe and the ultramodern plays or watches his football with pleasure as the guiding principle...
...commission has a job up its sleeve for every one of the 3,500,000 men now out of work. After a year of repeated stock market raids, wheat milles and bread lines, the specte of a Democratic Congress stalks through the land hand in glove with that greater bugaboo, Prohibition reform...