Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion, "when the workers first struck 102 days ago the mill owners absolutely refused to negotiate with them. Now, however, they have offered to do so, with reservations, and in a week's time, they will have to concede to the strikers' demands. This strike is not a spasmodic revolt; it is a long, determined struggle on the part of about 1600 textile workers to obtain a decent American standard of living, a 48-hour week, and improved working conditions...
...Communist Revolt...
...Johnson's mistake is the common one. He looks to the producer to set values instead of to the consumer. He forgets that the producer is simply a caterer and that in the case of an individual's revolt at serving bad meats, there are others waiting to take his place and profit from his morality. Undoubtedly there are plenty of ways whereby journalists could fill their columns without resorting the shady sides of law and living. Yet the public would still demand these and with good reason. For if the upper middle class, or even all of what could...
...current Scribner's how, having made a chaffling reference to the low estate of learning in college, he was rebuked by a student who said that the earnest student is honored and respected in spite of all the current jokes. There is, in fact, something like a Nation-wide revolt among thinking students against the evils of which the professors complain. It is the graduates now who are mainly responsible for the hysteria over sports, and the evils that follow in its train. Upon the campus itself there is a decided reaction toward sanity and practical reforms. --New York World...
...help the sheet get started). The current Passaic garmentworkers' strike was recorded in all its gory glory by Mary Heaton Vorse. An editor of the New Student compiled reports of undergraduate demonstrations of all kinds and dimensions to show how many "learners" were "in active revolt." More coherent was a dialog in limbo between Lenin and Anatole France, by Poet Babette Deutsch. More profound, and quite un-Communistic save in its departure from conventional form, was an "Apology for Bad Dreams" by the country's new national poet, Robinson Jeffers of the Pacific headlands...