Word: bugaboos
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...unfailingly give a dry vote. What the opposition needs is a slogan that might convince citizens that the desire for disreputable indulgence is not implied in a vote for a repeal. This, with the exertion of the newspapers might very well blow the Prohibition question into enough of a bugaboo to arouse voters; for it is seen that even the loosely iconoclastic like Mencken who go berserk on the mention of liquor and moral censorship, can attract audiences until their hearers grow tired with the yelling on these questions that never before have been of political importance...
Bach has been a bugaboo to many pianists, many audiences. Pianists must play him for their prestige whether or not they are able. Audiences squirm, remember unhappily their own five-finger exercises, their struggles with the metronome...
...agreed, however, that Governor Ritchie made an excellent personal impression upon both Generals and Privates of the Western Democratic army. They pointed out that Governor Ritchie's wetness is known but that Governor Smith's is notorious; that Governor Ritchie's nomination would raise no "Romanist" bugaboo; that though the Maryland Governor might bring to the Democratic convention only the Maryland delegation, he would none the less be in an excellent strategic position should a deadlock develop over Governor Smith's candidacy...
...Communists." Ever since Com- munism became the bugaboo of Occidentals, Netherlandic despatches from Java, Sumatra and Borneo have described all insurgent natives as "Communists." The insurgents' chief avowed grievance is, however, that as Mohammedans they refuse to be governed by Christians. They are "Nationalists" and "anti-Christians" rather than "Communists" in the political sense...
...economic theory is worthless unless it is based on a thorough grasp of the facts gleaned from exhaustive research, and it is particularly the curse of undergraduate thought that its conclusions are usually emotional reactions arising from hasty and superficial reading or discussion. It is nonsense to raise the bugaboo of radicalism in relation to such resolutions as those passed at the Milwaukee conference. They are half-baked, and they could be nothing else. Undergraduates, with very few exceptions, have not studied long enough to subscribe with intellectual honesty to any such statements as those quoted above. The very haziness...