Word: propagandistic
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...Communism in the United States is the control of the schools by those of capitalist persuasion. Any situation which tends to weaken the education system and to expose it to revolutionary ideas should, from the standpoint of the capitalist, be immediately remedied. Chicago may choose between loss of propagandist power and paying its teachers...
...Silk Stockings. Of peasant origin, he was 33 at the Revolution. He began his literary career by writing humorous short stories, failed to get an audience till the Revolution gave him one. Famed in Russia for his easy, straightforward style, his knowledge of popular psychology, he is no rigid propagandist for "the Party'' but a shrewd observer of the Russian people...
Both Your Houses (by Maxwell Anderson; Theatre Guild, producer) is high propagandist art. Playwright Anderson (Saturday's Children, Elizabeth the Queen) bases his tract on an heroic premise : that all save one of the nation's 435 Congressmen are crooked. The honest one is a young school-teacher from Nevada named Allan McClean (Shepperd Strudwick), junior member of the House Appropriations Committee...
American Dream gets in its most heavy-handed propagandist licks when the contemporary Daniel, a parlor pink with just enough genuine instincts left in him to know that his life is abominably warped, returns to the seat of his ancestors. Daniel (blond Douglass Montgomery who was also Daniel in Act I) futilely protests against his own social sphere by wearing turtleneck sweaters and dirty tennis shoes. He has also written a book on the New Economics...
...went abroad to see Christabel Pankhurst, who would gladly break an umbrella over a constable's head if it would help her get a vote. In the U. S., Mrs. Belmont's fight for equal suffrage took place on many fronts. She badgered Congressmen. She wrote a propagandist operetta which was produced at the old Waldorf in 1916 with Marie Dressier in the cast. Just as she had nudged Mrs. Astor out of Manhattan's social leadership, so did she outstrip Carrie Chapman Catt in the militancy of her agitation for woman's suffrage. And just...