Word: diversionism
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The Senate finally got farm relief out of the way (see FARMERS), only to see rivers-and-harbors swell to proportions more formidable than ever. The bill provided approximately a $50,000,000 mass of miscellaneous moneys for dredging creeks, bayous, inlets in many states; building bridges; buying canals; and...
Testimony by Lincoln C. Andrews, stern little nemesis of the bootleggers, accompanied the bill reported to the House last week by the Appropriations Committee. Mr. Andrews told what Christmas present he wanted to give the country. He proposed a triple-barrelled attack on real beer and hard liquor which would...
A simple and retiring soul who feels the lusts of the flesh coming over him is the central character. The title has no lack of support: at least seven times in the first act he is told that, you know, he is exactly like an oyster, and he speculates in...
The might of the pen having far surpassed the menace of the sword, it is hardly surprising that an age over-supplied with scribblers should invent a new outlet for ink. What better diversion than further to usurp the functions of the sword.
Perhaps it is wrong to wish that Ox-onians should prepare at Eton or Cantabridgians at Harrow and yet the singleness of purpose attained is to be desired. Under the present modus operandi one prepares at Oscaloosa High, aims for Harvard, and goes to Georgia Tech,--a diversion of purpose...