Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Mr. Snowden became Chancellor of the Exchequer, enemies gazed upon his crippled form-the result of a bicycle accident when young-and declared him an idealist, a pacifist, a radical, a man without training for the high office of Chancellor. To them he was a despicable figure. Then came his budget (TiME, May 12). People were forced to change their views. When that "pallid, hatchet-faced man, small, leaning heavily upon his crutches, dragging one foot helplessly along the ground," took his place upon the Treasury Bench in the House of Commons, made his budget speech, they recognized...
...Significance. The incredulity of a life of Shelley by a Frenchman is more apparent than real. Shelley was preeminently a romantic idealist, and at romanticism and idealism the French have long been past masters. M. Maurois has made the past live with words succinct and decisive, sentences deep with comprehension, paragraphs full of irony and delight, chapters seething with critical observations; in all, a book that may well deserve to crown the host of Shelleyana...
...Idealist...
Naturally enough, a love story ensues in which this curious idealist of the underworld plays opposite the shopgirl, who dimly feels something beyond the flesh, but who can understand clearly only when the flesh is speaking. They quarrel because she cannot comprehend his idealism. They separate. They rejoin again, and for a while it seems as if her way of living triumphs. But in the end it is Carley's ideal that wins. And when he is sent to an insane asylum as a criminal paranoic it is indicated that she understands his attitude. At any rate, she agrees...
...making a seriously threatening attack, figuratively speaking, upon the unyielding concrete walls of Sing-Sing and Dannemora. It is true that the idea of regarding offenders against the laws of the land as social invalids is not absolutely new; but Mr. George appears so far to be the only idealist in his line who has had the necessary common sense and experience to reduce his theory to a practicable form. And the convincing thing about it is that where it has been tried, it works...