Word: label
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such conditions inspire possimism, but it seems that it is all the outcome of what the Germans would label Zeitgeist, the spirit of the times. The educator who would inspire the great mass of students now wallowing in the sloughs of scholastic hebetude is in most cases a voice declaiming in the wilderness, because the multiplicity and complexity of college life has sent such a terrific avalanche of courses and activities down upon the normal student that he can only fight blindly ahead and trust to get through the best way he can. As long as chaos is the prevalent...
...Walsh. Thomas and James are his first names, reversing the order of the names of his embarrassing colleague in the Senate, James Thomas Heflin. Another distinction between these two-who are the Senate's most complete opposites except for the label on their politics-is that Senator Walsh, from rocky Montana, is the outstanding Roman Catholic Senator, while, as everyone knows, Senator Heflin from swampy Alabama mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...
...battle at any season of the year, is the principle of State rights. It is not his hope or his expectation to argue again an issue settled by the Civil War. "The particular application of the doctrine of State rights which culminated in the Civil War bears the label of a lost cause," he believes. No one now challenges the supremacy of the Federal Government or denies the power of Congress "to reach out into the States and influence or control local affairs and enforce uniform standards on subjects about which the people of the various States may differ...
...Betters was written twelve years ago by famed William Somerset Maugham as an indictment of those unfortunate U. S. women who, by purchasing the titles of European nobility and then noisily misconducting themselves, seem less to deserve their elaborate and acquired nomenclature than the simple label slut. To this honking propaganda, a modern audience dares say "Boo!" The play is a rapidly ironic comedy of bad manners. Ina Claire lends it the exciting charm of her acting and her tireless beauty...
Such Is Life. The iron, generally, has been driven into the soul of young playwrights who label their dramas with such matter-of-fact simplicity. In this case, it is a story of four maiden sisters of the heavily-upholstered convention-corseted '90s. Two of them have secretly wed the same rascal. One is recognized as wife; the other bears a bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness...