Word: iconoclastic
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...prize in a newspaper contest, a prize of $5 for submitting the day's best motto: "I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend my money like a beggar," a phrase from Robert Ingersoll, robustious iconoclast...
Back of the dispute about the inquirer's $100,000, as a matter of fact, lie several serious questions of economic theory. Some months ago, a Wall Street iconoclast, Edgar L. Smith, wrote a book, Common Stocks as Long Term Investments, which proved that shares were better long pull investments than bonds. This caused no small ruffling in the Wall Street dovecote, especially among its bond houses, but Mr. Smith's figures were persuasive. Now, with the public seriously preferring shares to bonds, some Wall Street bond dealers feel that the pendulum is swinging...
...Honors" courses will be extended in due time; the faculty will be enlarged and more money will be appropriated. But in the meantime, it is not mitigating this particular cause of undergraduate unrest for the blatant iconoclast to fire at our overlord, charging that he will not suffer his foot to be moved...
...newspapers. The chaste New York Times says merely : "All the news that's fit to print." The Springfield Republican lets it go at: "All the news, and the truth about it." The Louisville Courier-Journal clinches matters with ''Largest Morning Circulation of any Kentucky Newspaper." The Wall Street Iconoclast, recklessly: "The truth, no matter whom it helps or hurts...
Professor Chafee, who has himself encountered the strength of the firm hand which military necessity imposes upon intellectual freedom, is to talk of the silencing of the iconoclast by war time needs. The chief international agency for preserving peace will receive the tempered praise and clarifying criticism of Professor Hudson's experience...