Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortunate enough to be born a Turk is indeed lucky, provided of course that he can find a Christian on whom to practice the pastimes the Koran neglects to forbid. But the Christian in the case, or anywhere in the neighborhood gets as much enjoyment out of the process as a rat hunted by ferrets. Under the circumstances, it is easy to understand why there is some objection to handing over to the Turkish Nationalists, the Capitulation, along with the rest of the "boodle...
...French Marquis, never dreamed of such felicities of speech. "We are all getting a little tired of these panegyrics," continues Professor Hart, "and this indiscriminate praise of everybody born before the year 1800. As to the men in the Revolution, there has grown up hero worship and almost a process of deification...
...this point it is appropriate to consider what influence or influences will probably call a halt on the expansion of business when the time comes for it to turn the corner, and begin the slowing down process. In the past the turning point from prosperity to business decline has characteristically come when expanding commerce and industry have made such great demands for money as to cause a shortage or a stringency of credit. When that has happened interest rates have risen so high as to discourage further business expansion, and to result in a general slowing down of activity...
American optimism has pointed to education as the remedy, an evolutionary process producing superior and respected public officials. But experience has shown that the educated man does not enter politics; the corruption he sees discourages him even as he casts his ballot. This condition of civic life is no recent development. Aristophanes wrote: "Our sterling townsmen, nobly born and nobly bred,...these we treat with scorn; worthless sons of worthless fathers, yellow scum, these for every task we, choose...
...Politics" in a new American thesaurus might be bracketed with "unfairness", "laxity", "bribery", "corruption", "venality", "nepotism", and "fraud". These terms fly about whenever our thick political mud is stirred by investigation, reform, or election. By a process of association these ideas are inseparably connected. We laugh at humorists who use this condition as a theme, yet it is the thoughtless laughter which reflection stifles...