Word: scot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social change that has captured the imagination of the dissentient minority. It is something far more sophisticated, far more worldly-wise. Socialism has given place to Menckenism: assertion to negation, political enthusiasm to the religion of militant cynicism. As one experienced radical campaigner in, the colleges put it, Scot; Fitzgerald is more revered than Scott Nearing in undergraduate circles of the intellectual elite. Apparently economic and political radicalism has fled from the flippant milieu of the undergraduates, to the more earnest atmosphere of the theological seminary...
...Wheeler case is all the more unnatural when placed beside its former record in the prosecutions of Fall, Sinclair, and Doheny. In these instances such was the incompetence of the government that no indictment was framed which could hold water, and men whom the whole nation believed guilty went scot-free. Today the man who was responsible for the discovery of their guilt is pursued with ruthless energy. If this persecution is successful Senator Wheeler's political career will be forever ruined. Whatever its outcome, his financial resources are certain to be exhausted in the expense of conducting three defenses...
...London Scots Labor Club, ex-Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald commented upon the extraordinary fact that there was not a Scot in the present Cabinet. But he consoled himself and his audience by stating that Premier Stanley Baldwin was half a Scot,* adding, however: "I doubt whether half a Scotsman is good enough to maintain the great burdens of governing this country." (Applause.) All the jokes at the expense of Scotsmen, he alleged, were invented by Scotsmen. "I once employed a parliamentary secretary," he related, "not for the purpose of giving me good advice in politics-because I get enough...
...British Cabinet without a Scot...
...Fogg Mus Fine Arts 5a Fogg Lect, Rm. French 18 Sever 23 German 1e Sever 24 German 1 Sever 17 Government 11b Emerson F Greek G. 1 Sever 30 Greek 8 Sever 30 History 16 Harvard 3 History 55 Harvard 2 Mathematics A, IV Sever 18 Mathematics C, II Scot, 1, Dr, Walsh Sover 36 Sect, 2, Mr. Ward Sever 32 Sect. 3, Mr. Perkins Sever 35 Sect. 4, Mr. MacLaren Sever 35 Mathematics 9 Sever 20 mathematics 19 Sever 19 Music 1a Server 19 Music 4c Pierian Room Philosophy 8b Emerson D Physics 4h Emerson D Physics 6b Sever...