Word: fogeyism
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...This modern mind is the greates fraud in the world," declared the. Right Reverend Arthur Fogey Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, in the short address which he delivered to 200 guests of the St. Paul's Society in the Phillips Brooks House last night. The British Bishop went on to say that he had known young men intimately for 40 years, and that they were confronted by the same problems and met them in the same way today as they did when he was an undergraduate...
Some youngsters think him an old business fogey, are bored to rehear his aphorisms, wise words they learned as their financial ABC's. "Consider public opinion," "frank and honest information about corporation business," "particular cordiality to stockholders," "no more damning of public or government," "conforming to existent laws," "cooperation rather than competition," "consideration for labor," "8-hour day." These phrases sound stale nowadays. A generation ago they were novel, might have continued so yet. But Judge Gary who invented them-something few of the younger businessmen know-applied them practically to the conduct of the U. S. Steel Corp...
...Perhaps I am getting an old fogey, hut I deplore the temptations offered to our young people to indulge in the artificial and glaring pleasures away from their own firesides, and which in the end deprive them of the power to be happy with themselves...
...sister. Romantic, she believes his lovemaking goes no further than moonlight and roses; but a kiss he snatches at a midnight rendezvous opens her eyes. She considers him carnally voluptuous. Then a threatened operation for the vapid mother makes this flapper understand how precious Mother and her fogey ideas really are. Bathos...