Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diehards' overweening confidence that the Government will secure a second term of office at the next general election will soon prove a fool's paradise. It's as plain as houses that at least 60% of the country will be against them...
...potent Mr. PPP, turned suddenly, in the current issue of his Forbes magazine, and railed -against Henry Ford. By quotations from suppositious, always unnamed "authorities," by innuendoes and by skilled selection of facts he presumed to prove hat Henry Ford is decaying as a maker of motor cars. And he illustrated the article with a caricature of Mr. Ford "shown dressed as a gentleman of 1860 driving a typical vehicle of that period." The "Henry Ford" of the picture has a big ear, sidewhiskers, mustache, horseteeth, a head far too large for his high hat, and braided pants. Excerpts from...
...cast of almost 70 persons, all racing about in the throes of excitement and confusion incidental to this iron age. The furor is the result of bungling man's efforts to adjust his life, political organization, education, to the whizzing circle of accelerating machine civilization. The satire seeks to prove 1) That man is too busy being stimulated by split-second meals, red-hot tabloids and undressed dramatics to enjoy the simple compensations of life; 2) that in trying to regulate the political structure so as to alleviate economic distress, man swings from autocracy to democracy with perfect futility...
...laugh mill. Even the awe-inspiring news that tuberculosis takes a large roll of gentlemen graduated from college funny papers will not act as a sedative. Caps will continue to hob and bills to iiugle in the face of overwhelming numbers. After all, is the conforming reflection, these statistics prove exactly what most statistics prove...
...their day the American suffragets promised that woman suffrage would prove a panacea for the political situation. Since 1920, however, many have been disillusioned in their expectation of this great revolution of the national machine. Now comes the prediction that the complete enfranchisement of women in England, if carried out, will place the management of the country in their hands, since they outnumber the men, and in conservative quarters this fact naturally outweighs all the psychological and sociological arguments against giving equality to men and women voters...