Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gene Tunney did, but at least it looks as though she knew what she wanted even if the business men of Kansas who put the cash up for her start in art did not. And now the mid-western ingenue has an opportunity to show her gratitude to a nation of music-lovers by helping to solve the country's agricultural problem. Meanwhile, explaining to magazine fans why she did not choose to sing may be a profitable side-line...
...Washington, objects to meat, tobacco, alcohol and short skirts-except when bearing foreign labels. She wants to change the name of 16th Street, where stands her famed brown castle, to "The Avenue of the Presidents." Her swimming pool is open to foreigners almost exclusively. Once she offered the nation a home for the Vice President. When it was declined she sold it to Spain as an Embassy...
Male Freeborough of Banstead said: "Women manage boys by a system of bribery and corruption. Out of the six leading nations in the world, the nation in which bribery and corruption are most rife is the nation which has the most women teachers. America is loaded with bribery in its very vitals, its Parliamentary [Congressional], its municipal, its commercial and financial life. It is more than a coincidence that in that country teaching is feminine...
...What is needed today, it seems to me, is a deep conviction, which should amount almost to a religious repentance, that we Chinese are backward in everything and that every other modern nation in the world is much better off than we are. For all this we have ourselves to blame! Let us no longer deceive ourselves with self-complacent talks about imperialistic powers hampering our national progress and prosperity. Let us read the recent history of Japan and bury our conceit and self-deception once for all in shame and repentance...
...their earnings, but for some reason the report of (say) Public Service Corp. of New Jersey does not excite as much popular interest as the report of (say) Jordan Motors. When a good Jordan report comes out, everyone gets a mental picture of many a Jordan hastening along the nation's highways, but Public Service Corp. probably suggests only a picture of vague turbines and shadowy dynamos. Yet if popular timepieces recorded kilowatt instead of solar hours, Public Service Corp. 1928 earnings of over $22,000,000 would suggest bright lamps in New Jersey homes, savory roasts in New Jersey...