Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellectual integrity had hitherto been considered a handicap, appeared to have some chance of beating his opponent, Republican Senator Arthur R. Robinson. So stated, the situation is simple enough, but there are reasons behind even so simple "a thing as a State's dissatisfaction with the party in power. Responsible for the hope of the Democrats in Indiana, is a story filled like a cinema with incredible wild flashes . . . a searchlight fumbling over an army of marchers in white hoods . . . an airplane with a gilded nose tilting out of a cloud . . . a bed in a poor house, something dead...
Whether or not the labor leaders perceived the futility of this course is a question. At any rate, the whole tone of labor has changed. With its increasing power, manifested by such an organization as the Federation, with the increasing modification of its radical conceptions, Labor has seen the danger of communism and has opposed it. "We regard the Soviet political regime as the most unscrupulous, most anti-social and most menacing institution in the world today" is the unanimous declaration of the American Federation, voiced in the same document which contains a pledge of unswerving loyalty to American principles...
Recently, however, the President temporarily recovered his power of speech, and in an almost gossipy interview with Bruce Barton, widely known through his efforts to bring religion down to the intelligence of his public, gave his sentiments on numerous topics of modern conversation--but avoiding all mention of politics. The paprters, astounded that he who could not, did speak, objected strenuously. Where, they asked in righteous indignation, where was their friend, the Official Spokesman? And if he had been superseded, why were they not given a chance for a scoop...
...good in themselves, as representatives of that lump which American intelligence and native wit must eventually leaven, together they have the power of brute force, coupled with complete dulness--and that force--though like the carnivorous dinosaur, its one time proponent, it eventually die, can, like the name carnivorous dinosaur, cause a lot of trouble. One hopes then, and with all sincerity that Tunney will like a good Marine, defend his country against mental eclipse by refraining from establishing a precedent which could well mean the beginning of the Ivory...
...next period Clark, Crimson left halfback, stopped the Purple advance by intercepting a pass. A Crimson offence ended in a fumble, and a few moments later Pratt and Kilgour broke through and blocked a kick which Pratt recovered on the two-yard line. Miller drove with terrific power into the middle of two lines heaped in the mass and succeeded in moving the obstruction enough for the touchdown. Sayles again booted the goal, ending the scoring for the first half...