Word: frothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...froth-mouthed isolationist, before Dec. 7 Hearst published yapping anti-British editorials which sometimes outdid the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. Afterward, for a time, the anti-British editorials disappeared. But not for long. Presently Hearst's 4,110,270 daily readers were informed that Churchill remains in power "notwithstanding his incompetence because he has succeeded in dragging the United States into England's European entanglements. . . ." The British were denounced for enslaving India. But, as if taking it all back, the Hearst-papers ran a cartoon depicting Churchill's speech as the tourniquet...
...solution to our errors we readily concede is peace and reason. We cannot set up new principles until we comprehend the facts of the new order. But when the crisis comes in the form of force, we desert reason and strike at froth; we ignore basic ends to oppose immoral means; we forestall any real solution to the end of a bitterly destructive war. I cannot see this policy as the assertion of what we hold most dear: faith in the intelligence of ourselves and our common man to work out a decent destiny through reason. Hence I would favor...
...time past, whin I put me jut through wry livin' wan of the Tin Commandments between Revelly and Lights Out, blew the froth off a pewter, wiped me mustache wid the back av me hand, an' slept on ut all as quiet as a little child...
...Coward was expected to call on President Roosevelt, "possesses contacts with certain sections of opinion which are very difficult to reach through ordinary sources." Said the London Daily Mirror's acid Cassandra: "Mister Coward, with his stilted mannerisms, his clipped accents and his vast experience of the useless froth of society, may be making contacts with the American equivalents . . . but as a representative for democracy he's like a plate of caviar in a carman's pull...
Your article in reference to Canada, July 8, p. 28, is just another illustration that still waters run deep. It is surprising that your neutral observers can only see the froth on the surface kicked up by a numerically weak but very windy opposition...