Word: sop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report from a large body of graduates and undergraduates. Like a measure to lower tariffs, it strikes at the roots of vested interests. Particularly disgruntled will be the minor sports athlete who will not easily give up his "H" for a House letter tossed in his direction as a sop. If he is a wrestler or soccer man, he might in the future to be more than propitiated by the elevation of his sport to a major status, provided this action was justified by popularity. Also forced to sacrifice will be the administration, for the abolition of intercollegiate competition...
...place as the premier American political sport. Instead of trying to locate the root of all evil in Moscow, the Dies Committees of the future will have to orient their accusing fingers to Berlin or Rome. The "red menace" will become a mere afterthought, thrown in as a sop to a forty-three per cent minority...
...Robert Shorwood's 1936 Broadway success, "Idiot's Delight." As a movie it has a high percentage of entertainment value, but it lacks the intellectual force of the stage production. The elements which made the play such a success on Broadway have been cut out, one by one, to sop rural box office, industrial interests, and Mussolini. With such a great amount of vitality drained from the original play, the movie cast has little substance upon which to build their characterizations. Burgess Mcredith's radical Quillery suffers especially from this limitation; Edward Arnold as the munition manufacturer is a bestial...
...First New Deal, the President chose Tennessee-born, Georgia-raised Robert Fechner. Because Robert Fechner was an A. F. of L. unionist, and A. F. of L.'s William Green had at first opposed CCC as "forced labor," the choice was bound to be interpreted as a sop...
...liberal" Mr. Simpson they elected to Mr. Hilles' executive seat the apple-headed little gnome from Delaware, whom name-calling Harold Ickes calls "Proxy Dan, the Du Pont man"- ex-Senator Daniel Oren Hastings, than whom no man in Congress has a more reactionary record. As a sop to "liberals" they gave the one other executive vacancy to South Dakota's Harvey Jewett...