Word: chameleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shaggy-haired, 69-year-old Bogeyman Bigelow was a Congregational minister who, after taking over a Cincinnati church in 1896, leased it to a burlesque house, later founded his own "People's Church." In 1917 he was horsewhipped for pacifist preachings. Cincinnati knows him chiefly as a chameleon of political thought. He has been a Coughlinite, a Townsendite, an Independent on the City Council, onetime Democratic candidate for Secretary of State, Republican candidate for a seat in the General Assembly, an elected Democrat to the Assembly, in 1936 an elected Democrat to Congress. Now he is mostly Bigelowite...
Zimmerman in an interview pointed out that besides breeding a chameleon-like teacher who colors his instruction to suit his contemporaries, excessive desire for popularity results in a brand of presentation which can be easily subjected to propaganda purposes...
...British tailors' magazine, Tailor and Cutter, called Winston Churchill, famed for his many hats, his correct but rumpled clothes, a "sartorial chameleon," declared...
...Earle, running for the Senate, is opposed by the C.I.O.--supported S. Davis Wilson, Mayor of Philadelphia, who has changed his political affiliation so often that he is compared to the chameleon, with that versatile animal coming out distinctly second-best...
...been obvious. A star baseball player at Harvard at 20, a bank president at 26; a peanut peddler on Boston excursion boats at 9, a cinemagnate at 36; a pool operator in liquor stocks at 45, chairman of SEC at 46, Joe Kennedy at 49 is a chameleon. Not the least chameleon-like of his traits is that he is a close friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, yet trusted by Business...