Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East civilization arose earliest, has lasted with least change, and bids fair to endure with greatest permanency. The East is both civilized and barbarous, and out of its barbarity new hordes may rush upon the flimsy fabric of occidentalism. In pushing strident commercial claims, the possibility of reaction must be remembered; and greed for a few dollars today must not be allowed to organize the tremendous forces of the East into a unanimity of hostility. A mess of potage for today is not worth a birthright for tomorrow. If the West can never understand the East, it must at least...
...legal profession he has long been known as one of the most astute and fearless criminal lawyers. To the morbid public he is known as the counsel for Leopold and Loeb. Needless to say, his intention of retiring to a life of leisure and literary pursuits causes a sharp reaction of one sort or another in all quarters...
...years ago, the leaders of the U. S. Socialist* Party met, decided to found a propaganda weekly (TIME, May 28, 1923). "There is a reaction to reaction," then declared Eugene V. Debs, their five-times candidate for President. The weekly...
Perhaps the authorities fear that the sentimental reaction that most hunger strikes engender among hoi polloi will harm their party were they to let Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...
...minutes, was moderate and uninteresting. He refrained from attacking anybody but deprecated the distortionate propaganda that had been circulated about him. He called for German unity, voiced a determination that through peaceful means Germany would be steered to her place in the sun, scored "the blatant falsehoods about military reaction having inspired my candidacy...