Word: mugwumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...INDIANAPOLIS STAR: THE advent of "Modern Republicanism" has turned the G.O.P. into a mugwump party without any powerful or appealing national character. By its copy-cat tactics of merely adopting and adapting Democratic principles and programs, it has offered the voters no real opportunity for the kind of change that was promised them...
...Moscow theater, French existentialist Playwright Jean-Paul Sartre's The Respectful Prostitute, with some minor changes made by Political Mugwump Sartre himself, was regaling Soviet audiences, but hiding behind the odd alias of Lizzie McKay. Reason for the title change, according to Sartre's secretary: "There is no good Russian equivalent for 'respectful prostitute...
...such organization for taking hold of the untrained, friendless man and converting him into a citizen. Who else would do it if we did not? Think of the hundreds of thousands of foreigners dumped into our city. They are too old to go to school. There is not a mugwump in the city who would shake hands with him. They are alone, ignorant strangers, a prey to all manner of anarchical and wild notions...
...doings here in Texas are any indication of the principles which "Fighting Bob" will not modify "to secure the support of a limited number of mugwumps," he certainly will not get the two mugwump votes of our household! As voters in Precinct 129 of Harris County, we are indignant over the malicious allegations of the Taft machine here which invented a cock-and-bull story about those "whisky-drinking, beer-guzzling Ike supporters who stole Chairman Miller's silverware," and then turned right around and stole our votes at Mineral Wells. To thousands of outraged Texans, Truman may stand...