Word: cante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government came into being during the War of 1812. By 1813 the expression had reached the Press where U. S. Customs officers were referred to as "Uncle Sam's Men." That year the Troy Post, apparently ignorant of Uncle Sam Wilson's initialed meat barrels, declared: "This cant name has got almost as current as 'John Bull.' The letters U. S. on Government wagons are supposed to have given rise to it." The Gazette of the U. S. (Philadelphia) in 1816 explained that a countryman, meeting a regiment of light dragoons, asked what...
...overtime Springfield scored twice, while the first year men, because of poor marksmanship, failed to force the nets. SPRINGFIELD HARVARD '34 Bishop. g. g., Johnson Peabody, e.p. e.p., Eagleton Pretka, p. p. Holsapple, Fields Reylea, 1d. 1d., Rogers Davidson, Roberts, Miller, 2d. 2d., Althouse, Clapp, Wilbur Thompson, Cant, 3d. 3d., Rabinovitz, Townshend Taylor, c. c., Levan, Topalian Fisher, 3a, 3a., Sise, Merrit, Merry Linton,2a 2a.,Lowe, Higgins, Reed Hubbard, la. la.,Housem Lewis, o.h. o.h.Lessig Townsend, l.h. l.h.,Lowery...
...active disbeliever in capitalist economics, Steffens is skeptical of them; thinks not only that business controls government but that politicians are venal by profession. His journalism might be said to have been more revelatory than reformist. His (implicit) advice: find the facts, clear your soul of cant...
...both parties successfully evading positive stand on any really controversial issue by the familiar "red herring" method, party loyalty and convictions are reduced to mere habits of voting. Perhaps if the, voters were able to force the issue on a burning question such as Prohibition there would be less cant and hypocrisy in the party in power, and elections would be something more than personal mud-slinging contests. The present American party system is the most ingenious yet devised to obscure any question of vital interest to the voter. It is no wonder that politics as a vocation is rather...
...mysticism and practicality, the United Lutherans elected for his seventh term as president Frederick Hermann Knubel, 60, of Manhattan. He is a tall, wiry, active man who does not require his Vandyke beard to point up his distinguished bearing. He hates procrastination or inactivity, despises every form of cant, characteristics which he showed 37 years ago when he won first honors at Gettysburg (Pa.) College, venerable Lutheran preparatory school for the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. The year the Seminary graduated him he married Christine Ritscher of Jersey City, N. J., took her to the University of Leipzig...