Word: canting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the approach of the presidential election, Harvard takes on a more fevered appearance. Buttons of various sizes and hues appear. Meetings of political groups, assemblies, debates, all fill the air with their cries and cheers. Everywhere can be heard political discussion, opinion, creed, code or cant. Statistics; proving either of two sides, are called into play by the clever. Rumor and scandal, easy to remember and difficult to refute, are used by the unscrupulous. The whole college is caught up in the maelstrom of political interest and factional discussion. Harvard has awakened to the fact that there...
...lifer has constantly before him the vision of a possible parole or commutation. His conduct is constantly under more careful scrutiny than the termer because it has so much more bearing upon his eventual release than is true to the termer. The termer can lose "copper" (prison cant for earnable credits in the form of reduced actual time spent in prison). The lifer, by the very nature of his sentence, cannot lose anything of that kind because he is already doing "life." Misconduct can extend a lifer's prison stay by years, while it seldom costs a termer more...
...bearing effigies of homely Queen Anne and handsome Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. In the procession donkeys bore such placards as: "Queen Anne's Dead!" "The Parsons' Feet Have Been Under Our Table Too Long," "The Tithe Is the Death Watch Beetle Of Agriculture," "Archbishop of Cant. Church on Sunday but Hands Off the Farmer!" Spectators pelted the effigies with stones, clods, dung, mouldy mangel-wurzels. Then they burned them...
...Personal History" should be read by anyone desiring an objective picture of the post-war decade, with its cant, its hypocrisy, its lack of any workable standard, its deification of Mammon, and its half-hearted efforts to achieve peace. The picture is doubly effective when drawn with Mr. Sheean's clarity, and thrown into bold relief by his painstaking and often courageous search for truth...
...impossible that such a man as Dr. Dewey should not have understood so simple a fact. Perhaps the solution lies in his pragmatism. An idea is true if it works. This sort of cant with its innuendo against the rich certainly works in most audiences in the country. It is the stuff of demagoguery. For that reason Dr. Dewey can get away with a lot of loose thinking and still be consistent to his philosophy. But this very fact is what makes intelligent and stupid alike have less faith in the power of the human mind. If the greatest philosopher...