Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pacifism is described as "Gotten on cowardice by misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of the war." I have a vague notion that if I could grasp the meaning of that phrase, I should most certainly disagree with it. Pacifism, in some cases, may have been used as a cloak to hide cowardice but it has grown out of clear-cut, highminded thinking and has been fostered by a greater courage and a more noble...
...present the picture of business conditions is somewhat obscured by the seasonal Christmas retail season, which is going very well. When the excessive retail movement of merchandise is out of the way, a clearer notion of basic conditions will doubtless emerge...
Hiram Johnson: "Under the Headline GOD FORBID!, The New York Evening World published an editorial which said: 'Hiram Johnson's notion of a foreign policy for the United States boils down to this: Never go near a "council" table at which any other nation has a right to speak. Never confer. Never listen. The attitude of the United States toward other nations must always be: "We do not argue with you. We tell you." Debate is unAmerican. . . . Watch for earthquakes, famines and the like. These visitations afford a chance to point to good-samaritanism. . . . Never try to understand...
...speech of Dr. Luis de Elizalde at Buenos Aires. Though he though that Brazil does not really want war, he believes that Brazil's actions are being directed by the United States to catechize South America in order to balance a growing Anglo Japanese entente. Such a notion is but natural with resentment at the "big-brother" attitude of the Monroe doctrine scarce appeased by the Pan-American movement...
...must be admitted that the author has done the best he could, laboring under the thesis that all American writers have been liars. This preconceived notion is unfortunate; it has led him to see only some of the works of a few of our writers, and those with a beam in his eye. He has not considered much of the finest American literature...