Word: goosestep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take you behind the scenes of that invisible government which is now ruling America, including its schools. Pages 22 to 59 show in detail what this invisible government is doing to the schools of one large American City--Los Angeles, (etc.): The concluding chapters discuss 'The Goosestep' and its critics and developments in the college world since its publication." It is all completely damning, completely integrated...
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...Providence, R. I., one Joseph de Virgilio, adult, put on a pair of stilts. As he stalked northward, his ungainly shadow flickered and staggered-first on his right, then under his stamping stilts, then finally, long and frightening, bending and kicking in a fantastic goosestep, over road and into meadow on his left. At last, in Boston, having covered 45 miles in 12 hr., 20 min.,* Joseph de Virgilio flopped down from his five-foot, 15-pound poles. His legs, swollen to far above their normal size, could not support him; he was carried moaning...
Tremendous crowds lined the streets as troops advanced along them to the doleful strains of the Dead March, their rifles reversed, their legs doing a slow, rhythmic, painful imitation of the goosestep. The sombre field-grey gun-carriage, bedecked with floral tributes, came next, bearing its coffin shrouded in a Union Jack. Behind came the mourners?Lady Stack, Lord Allenby, Lady Allenby, Captain Campbell, Premier Zaghlul, onetime Premier Herbert H. Asquith (on a visit to Egypt), all the members of the Egyptian Cabinet, all the diplomatic representatives. Overhead a squadron of airplanes mournfully circled. At several points, guns belched forth...
...thing is sure: that when our undergraduates cease writing on, and our undergraduates cease reading about "Sunset by the Shore," then we shall have ceased to function healthfully and might just as well march in goosestep to Still man-on-the Charles. For when the "Younger Generation" is of the morrow, "Sunset by the Shore" will still be of today. And when the editors of college lit erary magazines begin editing and writing for their readers "as, for example, the editors of college comic magazines do," we may have more "vitality", but we are not likely to have college literary...