Word: clannishness
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...grinders who essay to keep the queue awake. Finally standees and sittees dose themselves with coffee sold by vendors who cry loudly the first Hottentot syllable, "hot . . . hot . . . HOT!" Last week Edward of Wales commented sympathetically upon London theatre queues in addressing the Old Playgoers' Club, a cozy, clannish company. Said he: "We who have seen a long line of very sad, pale, cold people queuing up for the first performance of a new play which is not going to open for 20 hours cannot help admiring the courage and tenacity of our countrymen. . . ." His Royal Highness displayed...
...movements in Europe, declares that the age of politics has passed, and taken with it the demagogue. Certainly in this country the laborers riding in cars produced by the most pronounced capitalism are too prosperous to cry out against Wall Street. The words Republican or Democrat are no longer clannish distinctions because the differences over farm relief, ship building, and the tariff, little interest the unaffected majority. Politics has yielded place as the prime subject for discussion. Even the irregularities of the Harding administration aroused little feeling, and few demands for disclosures. The public attitude in its present dangerous complacency...
...tease them into falling in love seems absurd. And when it comes down to imploring a Cape Cod or a Blue Point to notice the existence of the bourgeoise such as the East River family, or the "sidey" Chesapeakes, the task appears wholly ridiculous. Oysters are very snobbish and clannish. A Cape Cod never by any chance received an equally aristocratic Blue Point, and vice versa. Nevertheless, the State Conservation Commission is determined to democratize oysterdom...