Word: paean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the speakers had finished, their vocal supporter, who looked as though he ought to be a senator of the downeast type, rose to his feet and delivered a short but fervid address which started as a paean of praise for Wendell Willkie and ended as a denunciation of modern youth and Harvard in particular
...these two declared class war on society in the Communist Manifesto, a sardonic paean to the achievements of capitalism, a slashing indictment of its motives, methods and results, a rousing shout to the proletariat to throw off its chains. Meanwhile Marx organized the First International, fought everybody else who tried to suggest anything, wrecked it when he could no longer control it. Says Wilson: "Marx was incapable of imagining democracy at all. He had been bred in an authoritarian country...
...ring and Deputy Nazi Party Leader Rudolf Hess. Nervously they waited for him to begin. But as his words fell on the thick stillness there was no hint of an ultimatum to England. For an hour and a half he spoke, ramblingly, vituperatively, torrentially, shouting out a paean of victory, deviously justifying all his acts of aggression...
Next he launched into what sounded like a paean of praise for totalitarianism. Excerpts...
Last week, for the 95th anniversary of the Old Master's birth, the National Chiropractic Journal printed a rib-tickling paean, showing that Founder Palmer was no mere kneader of vertebrae, but a true philosopher, "servant of the cosmic mind." Said Chiropractor C. Sterling Cooley of Tulsa, Okla.: "When he gave an adjustment, his manner was much like that of a composer playing one of his own compositions...