Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Some were impressed by Publisher Harper's proud announcement that two editions of her book had been exhausted before publication date, but many more looked forward to drinking in another recital of carefully muted chamber music. Many a reverent reader, mindful of the Olympian thunders her Fatal Interview brought down,* doffed his hat before he tiptoed into the audience. But plain readers soon discovered that Wine from these Grapes was a good but by no means a great performance...
Those amongst us who have harbored a lingering desire to gambol o'er the greensward unhindered by embarrassing raiment, ever since the appearance of the Merrill's famous treatise, will not have to repress their primordial tendencies much longer. Strong rumor hath it that the Olympian League of West Haverstraw, New York, casting its healthful eyes over our fair land in search of a fertile field, has decided to proselyte the cause of corporate deshabille in these sickly parts. No listless campaign is in store, for the Bernarr MacFaddens up at West Haverstraw have put their undefiled and undraped minds...
...while NRA goes to pieces under him. Professor Tugwell is the chief antagonist, marshal of the forces seeking a socialistic state. He is a respected enemy until, during the farce of the Wirt investigation, he denies his "anti-American doctrines," makes himself a laughing stock. Above the tumult, in Olympian inscrutability, Franklin Delano Roosevelt strides two horses running in opposite directions while a chorus of bandwagon riders, old friends, members of his family and the propaganda boys make ballyhoo...
...last war. Mr. Stoddard desires with a great earnestness to keep out of the next war, unless "a vital natural interest" (i.e. not that of keeping out of war) is involved. The war danger in America, however, is that there are too many Stoddards, trying to play the Olympian game in diplomacy, and the spoils game in commerce...
...country's political balance is Idaho's Senator Borah, the straddler magnificent. Always he has been just Republican enough to bear the name but always he has been poised on the crux of great issues, waiting until lesser men have spent their arguments, to impart his Olympian conclusions. His last great cry was for an Honest Dollar. Now that the dollar has moved Leftward to 60?, his cry is for collecting the War debts, a notion that Calvin Coolidge used to play with...