Word: fletcherize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republican National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher: The cancer of unemployment is eating at the heart of the whole country...
...thank Mr. Fletcher, '35, for his kind letter to me concerning consistency, "Why", he asks, "when you have avowedly come out on the side of falsehood and injustice, do you continually appeal in your column against them? Have you not averred your absolute, unalterable repugnance to intelligence, decency, honor, and morality, whose emotions alone you have attempted to stir within...
...Consistency," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is the hobgoblin of little minds." Surely you would not have me wallow in its quicksands, Mr. Fletcher; surely in these days of my ascendancy, you do not adhere to the mutton-chop philosophies of Truth for Truth's sake. Modern souls use ideas as weapons, and judge them according to their effect. What do I care whether the appeal is to honesty, truth, love, brotherhood, or patriotism so long as in their name men will do and act as I have planned...
HAIL, CAESAR!-Fletcher Pratt-Smith & Haas...
...farewell to liberty but hail to the chief is the tenor of Fletcher Pratt's biography of the great Julius. Hail, Caesar!, an uncritical popularization like his informal history of the U. S. Civil War (Ordeal by Fire), is written with a slapdash chattiness that often sinks to sophomoric levels. In his laudable attempts to English the dead Latin facts, Author Pratt sometimes makes his English livelier than lucid: "He was disposed to hold grievance that the Senate had not protected him to point and edge, and a snarling shuttlecock of 'Your fault' began to grow...