Word: echoed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Echo Preceded the Herald...
When the question of the tariff comes up again, the strange melodious call of the bobwhite is sure to be heard in the Senate, followed by a mocking echo of Democratic laughter...
This champion of the unprized causes builds like his Fifteenth Century model a policy for political progress on the firm conviction that the voice of the people is but the echo of those who lead them. In short, he caricatures democracy by giving the face of that goddess a Roman nose and by handing her a club, labeled "bunkum". And to those who delight in the raucous ribaldry of Mr. Mencken, and even to those who parade the pageant of their political pessimism a with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have...
Although the World Series and the French War Debt have sent evolution, Dr. Scopes, and the now-famous "Monkeyville" from the limelight in the popular imagination into the shades of oblivion, an echo of last summer's controversy will be heard here Thursday night when Dr. John Roach Straton will speak at the Phillips Brooks House on "The Battle Over the Bible." The Scopes case and the publicity which it received in the American press are expected to play a large part in Dr. Straton's presentation...
Applesauce. Chicago approved this play mightily last season, and the earliest spectators were hopeful. They were sharply set down. It turned out to be an unskilful echo of The Show-Off, well played but cheap and dreary...