Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boots, with every expectation of booming gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary blessing (and a check for $1,100 to help the sheet get started). The current Passaic garmentworkers...
...looks at international relations with a shrewd, ironic eye. He maintains a certain detachment, remaining an American, in contrast with a good many American diplomats, notably with Ambassador Page, who when he was in London became more British than the British themselves. But probably this is easier to do now than it used to be. Americans abroad always used to have a certain sense of inferiority, especially in England, where they could not get over the feeling that they were more or less Colonials in contact with an older and surer civilization. Now the United States is the most powerful...
...Reign of Torture. M. Barbusse characteristically charges nothing less than that the governments of Roumania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Jugoslavia "maintain their supremacy through methods which make the Spanish Inquisition appear sweet and humane by contrast...
...Service and the Art of Healing. Differential Diagnosis, What Men Live By, Laymen's Handbook of Medicine, Rewards and Training of a Physician, Social Work. His later books reveal a shrewd estimate of the popular intelligence. While they never decoy the reader into bypaths, still they are in startling contrast to the keen methodology of his earlier, more scholarly tomes...
...Train's audience has the pleasure of being in the secret, of watching twelve good men and true, a political minded judge, and a mildly dishonest district attorney make utter fools of themselves by contrast with the actions of the upright young lawyer, Hugh Dillone who carries idealism to the verge of idiocy...