Word: partisanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complex life, however, affords that much greater opportunity to the individual who has acquired the capacity to think. He will be sought after, for the people want to be led. There is so much loose talk, foggy thinking, agitation for reform, partisanship and prejudice that he who can demonstrate the qualities of discernment, sincerity and courage will soon take his place as a leader in the community. The people need guidance. The average person has neither the time, the inclination, nor the ability to form a fair judgment on the thousands of questions and candidates constantly before them. They must...
...America's Cup contests, long a personal rivalry between Sir Thomas Lipton and U. S. yachtsmen, have created an odd inversion of partisanship. Many Americans would like Lipton to win because they feel he is a fine sportsman. Many Englishmen would like to see him lose because in the 32 years that he has built boats for the cup contests he had never allowed any fellow-countryman to make a challenge, always getting his own in first. Now 80, ruddy, genial, and almost professionally optimistic, he still affects the costume that appears in most photographs-blue serge suit, yachting...
Most of the opinions expressed by parties to either side of the wet-dry controversy can be liberally discounted on grounds of violent partisanship. But a speech such as that made by George W. Wickersham, chairman of the Law Enforcement Commission, at the Boston Garden Monday night cannot be passed over so lightly. His conclusion that America's policy of legal prohibition has been less successful in reducing alcoholism than the indirect methods employed by England cannot but make the most sincere dry wonder whether his ends might not be better accomplished in some other...