Word: demagog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evolve a finance bill, of any sort acceptable to Parliament, which would produce the revenues indispensable to the state (TIME, March 8 et ante.) As the week closed, an ominous prophecy flew about Paris: "Eh bien! Now we shall have a Dictator or a Soviet or some wizard-demagog like M. Caillaux. Tant pis! So much the worse...
...change which came over the country with the advent of Mussolini is little short of miraculous. He did not promise or give advantage to any one class. He called upon and demanded of all classes that they work together for the good of the nation. He is neither a demagog nor a reactionary. He is a patriotic realist...
...this man a Moses, fitted to lead the people out of a wilderness which is his own creation, only? Is he of the George Washington type, as counsel would have you believe ? Is he not rather of the all too familiar charlatan and demagog type?like Alcibiades, Catiline, and except for a decided difference in poise and mental powers in Burr's favor, like Aaron Burr? He is a good flyer, a fair rider, a good shot, flamboyant, self-advertising, wildly imaginative, destructive, never constructive except in wild non-feasible schemes, and never overly careful as to the ethics...
...demagog and a pedagog wrote a prolog for a catalog. When thru, tho, they recited the Decalog in the thorofare." Thus would it be written by members and followers of the Simplified Spelling Board, which held its 19th annual meeting, last week, in Manhattan...
Premier Saad Zaghlul. "Zaghlul is 77 years old and is not the demagog leader of the people that he was a few years ago, when he was fighting politically against England. He is Prime Minister and has heavy responsibilities on his shoulders, which make men think before they speak...