Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps Cambridge has its attractions. Sophomoric rhapsodists can find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present...
Yesterday's stampede is, even cursorily, all too easy to understand. Depression, to be sure, played the largest part; Republicans were in office when the crisis broke, they failed immediately to overcome it, they must be the butt. An equal share of credit, however, must go to the Democratic campaign managers. Aggressive from the start, James Farley outlined a program that would appeal to every class of people; speakers were admirably fitted to audiences, texts to local interests. The personal charm and sympathy of his candidate, the confident progression of his campaign, contrasted favorably with the cold mechanical personality...
...York Herald-Tribune probably reflected preoccupied public opinion on the subject when it headlined its story on the pronouncement as "Red Riot at High Court"; Communist ballyhoo of the case excuses editors and public alike for confusing justice with Communist propaganda. In this respect the case threatens to equal the "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...York Herald-Tribune probably reflected preoccupied public opinion on the subject when it headlined its story on the pronouncement as "Red Riot at High Court"; Communist bally-hoo of the case excuses editors and public alike for confusing justice with Communist propaganda. In this respect the case threatens to equal the "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti...
Governor Roosevelt did not define his character with equal precision, did not say who he was, where he lived, what he did. When Alfred Emanuel Smith first beheld Mr. Roosevelt's tactics he cried "Demagog!" at his old friend "Frank," hotly declared he would "take off my coat & vest and fight to the end against any candidate" who tried to set class against class, rich against poor. But as the campaign progressed, the Governor continued to flatter and comfort a vague and various mass of the electorate by charging that President Hoover had overlooked them in administering Depression relief...