Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberal publicists were splenetic last fortnight over the presence in Washington of the Nicaraguan generalissimo, Emiliano Chamorro. A presidential election impends in Nicaragua. General Chamorro wanted to find out how the U. S. Department of State would view his candidacy. U. S. citizens who regard U. S. intervention in Latin-American affairs as arrant presumption, were enraged to think that an honest young republic like Nicaragua could not elect whom it wished without "permission" from U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg...
...which that name rings in the mind has not pealed since 1915, when Joseph Little Bristow ceased to be a U. S. Senator from Kansas after six tempestuous years. In the mild-mannered gentleman who now farms and sells lots on the outskirts of Washington it is hard to find the bristle-lipped, bead-eyed, frock-coated orator of 15 years ago of whom it was said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge, Dolliver...
Blue. The first color band would include such U. S. citizens as stand pat for a stratified society topped by an aristocracy either of money or brains. They find the present form if not the present condition of government in the U. S. satisfactory on the whole. They think little of radical reformers. For various reasons, all would call Socialism "rot." Besides Banker Morgan, Blues include such assorted types as Associate Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court, Chairman William Morgan Butler of the G. O. P., William Wrigley Jr., William Randolph Hearst, James J. Tunney, Will Durant...
...well-behaved citizen of the Republic. Whereas the great Bismarck, while extremely sensitive, was permeated by an intense hatred of mankind, with the exception of his wife and children, who he loved and adored above everything else, despite the fact that he was three times engaged before he could find a woman who would marry him, the contemporary Bismarck is moderate in speech and morals...
...with the nervously good-natured tolerance that a stupid child affects when he sees "Billy is a fool" written upon the school wall. Intelligent critics realize the formula upon which these angry, mocking mimes base their performance. The grotesqueries which they flay are often genuine; but most intelligent people find more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers of the team of Mencken & Nathan are generally to be found among the mushroom intelligentsia at whom their weapons are pointed; but the admiration is so open-mouthed and so self-conscious that the implied self-criticism is forgotten...