Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinary for the reason that popular feeling against capital punishment is, if anything, on the increase. It can only be accounted for on the theory that people have concluded that women must assume the same responsibility for their acts as men. In addition it is doubtless true that the reaction resulting from sentimental acquittals has been even stronger than criminal lawyers have realized...
HELEN OF TROY, NEW YORK?A musical comedy which suffered much from public overconfidence in the authors (George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, creators of Merton of the Movies). It turned out to be just a real good show. The normal reaction: " Yes, it's good; but it ought to be so much better...
...overdrank so Mr. Gilbert for the moment gave up the role of leading man for that of comedian, Considering the plot of the play and the tender feelings of his Rose of Sharon, we should have expected a rather different attack. Disgust rather than amusement should have been the reaction of the audience...
Party reorganization is badly needed. As a result of Communist and revolutionary disaffection, membership has shrunk from 118,000 in 1919 to 12,474 in 1923. Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Presidential Candidate in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912 and 1920, declared that there was now a "great reaction against reaction...
...speech before the English-speaking Union, in Manhattan) : " The histories studied in this country have been getting better and better," he continued. " But the fact must be faced that within the last few years this progress has been checked. There has set in a wave of reaction, and in almost every state of the union there is going on an agitation for the reintroduction of parochial patriotism into the histories and colleges...