Word: crotcheteer
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...spirit did not think it right that Henry Adams should hear of Auguste Comte; it did not care to explore the moral results of the industrial revolution. Nor does it care to discuss them now, with the result that most American undergraduates still think of Socialism as a scholastic crotchet that is first cousin to free love and atheism. Mr. Hoover, one remembers, thought that all good things should drop from above. They did not in the economic structure, and they will not in the academic. All power to the National Student League or to any other undergraduate organization which...
...English Dictionary defines the maggot as "a nonsensical on perverse fancy, a crotchet", and Miss Warner employs the word as a titular alias for the sprite who deprived the genteel and clerical Mr. Fortune, prepared to devote his declining years to ministering to the spiritual needs of the inhabitants of an idyllic South Sea Isle, of his religion, his sense of duty, and his peace of mind. Fanua, a tropic island, was apparently a fertile field for an efficient missionary, but in the end Mr. Fortune decided that there are gods and gods, and the importance they play in this...