Word: spinelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Junior League has a spineless program; it overrates the importance of its 35,000 membership ("More than that number attend a Joe Louis fight"); the League is nothing but a prep school for the Daughters of the American Revolution; Leaguers play around the fringes of social work; they spend at one party what many a family lives on for a whole year; they could be criticized for not cleaning up politics, for not working for birth control, for not admitting Negroes as members; he never saw them anywhere except on Florida beaches or at dog shows...
...Spineless," quoth the friends of Chamberlain...