Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has reported a growing interest in Asiatic subjects. "We have long been looking forward to an extension of our work in Chinese," he said recently. "The language must be emphasized because it is the key which unlocks the history, literature, and philosophy of the nation...
...Rickard trumpeted from Florida and the nation's press picked up the echoes greedily. Said the famed promoter: "Jack Dempsey is through with the ring." Said Fisticuffer Dempsey in California: "If Tex says so I guess it's true." Failing sight owing to socks in and about the eye were among the reasons offered. Skeptics of the press, long used to sound and fury meaning nothing but publicity, pointed out wearily that Dempsey would not be through with the ring until the public unmistakably gave evidence of unwillingness to pay to see him fight...
...What the country needs most is a good five-cent cigar," was a dictum of late Vice President Thomas R. Marshall which passed into the nation's higher political criticism. That statesman would doubtless derive considerable satisfaction at the present triumph of his wish. In 1927 the production of 5 cent cigars was 3,175,157,870, or 48.3% of all cigars manufactured, and an increase of 10% over the 5 cent production of 1926. Snuff, another inexpensive form of tobacco, likewise established a new high record with 40,154,792 pounds, an increase of 5.4%. The decline...
...There is no country in Europe where poets have more influence upon their nation than in Ireland," said George William Russell, noted Irish poet and painter, known as "A. E.", in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter after his lecture and reading yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. "In every movement of national scope," he said, "the poets have been very active. I believe that in Ireland there will always be a race of heroic idealists. The poets in their imagination have connected earth imagination have connected earth with heaven...
...represents per-eminently the elusive spirit of America. There will doubtless be many suggestions, but the choice might well narrow down to the name of Alfred E. Smith and Andrew J. Volstead as the two men who at present wield the most influence on the spirits of the nation...