Word: idealistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then in stepped Alvaro Obregon, one-armed fighter, idealist. He found a " Constitution" which had been evolved during the revolutionary period, and it was his intention to make the Constitution work...
Harold West, as Charlie Bunting, makes the most of a very difficult part. In this, his second appearance with the Copley Players, he impersonates a "red-blooded idealist" with a remarkable success, combining all the gifts of a modern chemist with those of a William Jennings Bryan. He is an orator par excellence, but he goes back to his chemical experiments at the end, as by far the less dangerous of the two. And he gets a wife into the bargain...
...peace with himself. If he has peace of mind it is a Peace of Versailles. . . . He has the look of one whose head has long been thrust out of a window gloomily expecting an accident to happen at the street corner. And General Bramwell Booth, the hard headed practical idealist, the fanatic possessed with such an unpopular loathing for sin, "listens with the whole of his attention strung up to its highest pitch, his eyes wide open staring at you, his mouth pursed up into a little O of suction, his fingers pressing to his ear the receiver...
...Valera, whom you have grossly caricatured as "first and foremost an agitator who lives on the troubles of others" is an idealist, but his sincerity and honor are surely undeniable...
Neither the League of Nations nor the Disarmament Conference could possibly have arisen anywhere but in America. Perhaps you need to be secure in order to be an idealist, and it is American idealism, its immense good nature, its simplicity, its readiness to believe as well of others as of itself, which is at the back of both these efforts to cure the world of one its most invest- erate vices, or at least to assuage the worst of its ills. The weakness of the League of Nations is that its methods are too rigid for easy working...