Word: sloganeers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the estimable Jane Cowl could not improve the situation. She seemed as prone as the adapter to regard the 'girl with politely scandalized eyes. "Of course she's a bad girl, but we've got to make her as nice as possible," seemed the general slogan. The result was a cautious counterfeit...
...best traditional stock, deriving from the long-ago time when Professor Dunbar convinced his colleagues that an economist might be a scholar. With the cock-sureness of youth, the School chose to demonstrate in its own way its preference for such things as the newest classic slogan, the clarion call to "Take Baby...
...from Sever to New Lecture Hall and to Leavitt and Peirce's windows. The Harvard men of Memorial's hey-day dined leisurely, and aided eloquence with loquacious draughts, but a schedule, measured by the unfailing Ingersoll, now limits his gustatorial pleasures to a few snatched moments, while the slogan "coffee or milk" is impotent to stimulate good fellowship. At present, the press of engagements has destroyed inclination as the motivator of the day's activities...
...infant giant of industry from the tariff which favored the old hereditary landowners, the solution of the Irish problem these were the triumps of Liberalism. But they are all triumphs of negation. Once its destructive work was completed, Liberalism had no more tasks to turn to: its slogan continued to reiterate the old, old catchwords, while a new England was turning to a new party for a constructive program. After a of growing-pains, England was looking for fresh shapes into which to crystallize its future. The Labor party made itself the champion of change, while the Tories kept...
...student of journalism is always suspicious of a slogan of this type, .whether applied to magazines or newspapers,* for he knows that usually those publications that boast that they are prepared for people who think are actually edited for morons...