Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest Senatorial joke. Blatherskite Coleman Blease had been elected South Carolina's Democratic Senator, in itself funny; and his soap-box campaign oratory had unseated Blatherskite Senator Nathaniel Barksdale Dial then in office. The joke was that Senator Dial was displaying cry-babyish tendencies over his defeat, was, in the language of the street, "bellyaching" around the Senate and vexing Democrats (particularly the unfortunately irrepressible Pat Harrison) by eulogizing President Coolidge* and voting Republican on close issues. Finally Senator Dial dolefully turned over his seat to the succeeding gentleman from South Carolina, returned home...
...only way the United States of America can defeat the hatred of European nations toward us is to maintain the strongest fleet, army and air force in the world...
...famed policy of "passive resistance?" Or sociology?-Gandhi's profound knowledge of the "caste" system was none the less because in 1920 he had failed to persuade the masses and the "untouchable castes" to treat each other as "blood brothers," thereby causing his political defeat through lack of unity. Well he knew the Brahmanic conception of an indelible hereditary stain resting upon definite groups of men. And, of course, they could ask him to tell them of literature. Who better than Gandhi knew Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy? Or the science of government? Gandhi knew well Britain's jails. Then...
...Hills. They repeated it when, in 1923, Mrs. Mallory lost her title, after a redoubtable struggle, to Miss Wills (TIME, Aug. 27, 1923.) And they reiterated it last week when Mrs. Mallory had eliminated Helen Wills from the New York State championship at Eye. It was Helen Wills second defeat in eight days. She spent her energy early-in the first set, the only set she won. The court was like an oven, but Helen Wills was cool. She has never, since the days when she wore pigtails, appeared anything else. Mrs. Mallory looked as if she had been...
...scenery. "Yours aquatically," he signed his cables. "Yours politically. . . Yours imploringly. . . Regards to 'Cuckooland.' " Readers could only picture the editors of the Times screaming with laughter at lines like: "Don't put too much faith, you Democrats, in rumors that peasants of the Middle West will defeat Coolidge. They change with the wheat crops and he has two to go." Or, "A bunch of American tourists were hissed and stoned yesterday in France, but not until they had finished shopping." Or, "Suzanne Lenglen has been landed by Pyle. He is now here in London trying...