Word: smotheration
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...spontaneity. Freedom of speech and action are the Democracy's cardinal tenets. No leader is so small or obscure that he cannot pop up and make himself heard. Because the Party is individualistic and sectional, it has a habit of bursting into flame over principles and personalities. Where Republicans smother their differences in committee, Democrats fight theirs out in public. Where Republicans represent the People, Democrats are the People?noisy, emotional, opinionated. In conventions assembled they generate an atmosphere where almost anything can happen...
Anyway, who could smother a great wave of tenderness at the sight of blood on the dress of any comely girl? The final reform of the pair, result of mutual love, drives home the fact that, after all, none of us are bad, but just "poor blundering humans...
...minds, contemplating it from all angles; and after much cogitation we conclude that it is a worthy conception, or no. This process, not solely of the classroom, molds our laws in every relationship. There is no doubt but that much mental pabulum has been left shrouded, only to smother, in the minds of men, material that might have had illimitable influence...
...score almost at will or at the whim of its capricious, brilliant backs. A half-million people watched the dozen biggest games of the week. Largest crowd of the year-100,000-saw Southern California's Mohler, Shaver, Pinckert and Musick, the best backfield on the Pacific Coast, smother Stanford at Los Angeles, 19 to o. With 4! min. left to play. Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Quarterback Barry Wood, who had been playing dunderhead foot- ball all afternoon, threw a 40-yd. pass to a point 4 yd. from the Dartmouth goal line. Harvard's Hageman...
...only the unfair restrictions of the city that smother the Boston stage. With two exceptions, the public press of the city is concerned with the theatre only as an advertising agent. The healthy atmosphere of interested and intelligent criticism that lends interest to the stage in other cities of similar size is entirely lacking here. This fact, along with unintelligent censorship and a general lack of a real theatrical interest on the part of the public almost justifies the statement that Boston gets only what it deserves...