Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ishmael in public life, loathed by the Tories whom he left and has now returned to; distrusted by the Liberals, on whose backs he first mounted to power; hated by Labor, whom he scorns and insults, and who see in him the potential Mussolini of a wave of reaction...
Political Reaction. Onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald, Leader of the Labor Party, accused Premier Stanley Baldwin and his ministers in the House last week of "retiring with the beautiful airs of a parcel of Vestal Virgins" during the strike, and letting the country go to smash. Choleric, Mr. Macdonald moved a motion of censure which was defeated 339 to 131. Nettled, he shouted: "We want to test by the ballot box whether the nation would like to carry our motion. Parliament should be dissolved...
...decade. The Chicago press, after months of extravagant paeans about Chicago's towering new hotels, newspaper cathedrals and dizzy spires for housing jewelers, oil men, furniture merchants, athletes, chicle-venders, and to support a Methodist cross, had not yet quieted down sufficiently to overhear the murmurs of reaction. But such murmurs there were, even in Chicago. Three universities had in the past year embarked upon skyscrapers of learning-at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Chicago. Detroit was contemplating the advent of an 85-story prodigy, complete with barbershops, drug stores, restaurants and a car-checking system, the Book Building, 873 feet...
...cause for this international renaissance is not far to seek. Any number of reasons are available: the stupidity of revues, the reaction against eternal jazz, or the desire for comedy that is really comic. One does not have to be an intellectual to appreciate "The Mikado" or "The Gondoliers"; and "Patience" in spite of its theme being quite dead, is as alive today as in the time of Oscar Wilde. it is a proof of the universality of enjoyment for clever dialogue and good music to see a modern audience reveling in Gilbert and Sullivan. Lasting geniuses were scarce...
...Youth Movement," continued Dr. Kellarmann, "is not merely a new club, nor is it a school revolution, but it is a reaction against those whose bywords are 'serenity, prosperity, and propriety'. It is not a simple reform of life that is sought, but an intuitive mystical vision, a more humane feeling, accompanied by greater enthusiasm, ideals, and a richer and more beautiful life...