Word: canting
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...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...
...uninspired manner in which the Church has been led has caused people to face their religious difficulties as a purely personal matter. This in some ways is to be commended, as it avoids a great deal of cant and hypocrisy, but such a process extending over a long period of years will only produce one result?the gradual dissolution and death of the Church of England...
...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...
...Sell All Thou Hast!" The first axiom of western statecraft is that religion has no place in politics. "But if religion is not needed in politics," blinks Mr. Gandhi, "then where on earth is it needed?" Perfectly infuriating to Englishmen is this sort of thing, which they call "sickening cant...
...might have been President, had he not been so hostile to William Jennings Bryan in 1912. Famed, but not so signifi cant as the Underwood boom of 1912, was Alabama's cry, "Twenty-four votes for Oscar W. Underwood," which was re peated 103 times at the Democratic convention...