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That is the economic Ivry which the Zionists faced at Cleveland this week- suspend Lipsky-ism, to get back Brandeis. Before the convention opened, Leader Lipsky buckled on a forensic armor and fortified himself with a livelihood. He resigned as the paid president of the Z. O. A., became the $10,000-a-year president of Judea Life Insurance Co. He expected, of course, to be elected the unpaid Z. O. A. president...
...been puzzled at heart by the scrawl of a cadaverous bull, the entirely blue circus-rider, the patchwork of pasted cloth, cement, brickdust he has bought. And many a student has sought passionately to copy the processes-"researches," "experiments"- by which Painter Picasso attains undeniable effects. Hence many an "ism," including most of Cubism...
Your attitude towards Indian affairs . . . smacks of the sickly sentimental ism noticeable amongst those who view the travail of a lesser people from afar...
Finally, what was once the impish and diverting anti-U. S.-ism of M. Balieff has soured into an apparent U. S.-phobia. Two years ago in Paris, the attack could be seen coming on. Spleen and scorn for les Americains, who had been fools enough to make M. Balieff rich, were explicitly on his lips in Paris. Last week, in Manhattan, they lurked in his innuendo, deadened the jollity that once beamed from his round Cheshire-cat-face...
...been expected for weeks. Democrats had banked on it. Republicans had tried to forfend its effects. It might have been an anticlimax after so much anticipation. But the Hoover cry of "Social ism!" in New York last fortnight re charged the atmosphere. It was electric when it came last week ? the Norris cry of "octopus!" in Nebraska...