Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By Sunday it was obvious that the story on Georgia's gubernatorial confusion, which kept expanding, would need plenty of space for the telling. So several other stories were edited down to make room for it, and others re-written in shorter form. The crash of a Navy plane...
His sentimentality was not to be confused with his tenderness; Tarkington's affection for Penrod and Willy Baxter, for Alice Adams and Claire Ambler and all his young people, gave life to his novels. Sentimentality is itself a confusion, a failure to discriminate in feeling; and Tarkington even at...
Bell also mentioned the confusion which arose in November as the result of the short-lived experiment in dining halls, by which employees could receive their meals free and have a deduction made from their wages if they wished. Many of the student-waiters resented the change back to the...
As the Democratic Party slides into minority status, groups within the party have looked about to find what could be salvaged from the wreckage. With the southern wing standing just as pat as it has for 70 years, the job of reclamation has been left to that movement of many...
Undoubtedly, the confusion surrounding the thefts was not in any way cleared up by those Harvard men who could volunteer considerable heat about their losses, but not the serial numbers or even the makes of their typewriters or cameras. And, of course, the arrival of federal agents in the late...