Word: straitjacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice protested at first, when the Pittman neutrality bill proposed to shackle U. S. citizens with 3,500 words that added up to "Stay home under penalty of the law." But loud was the squawk from the shipping tycoons when they found that the bill would straitjacket U. S. shipping into immobility. While Washington wits called Nevada's Key Pittman a Thalassaphobe, and hinted the next step would be to make offshore swimming illegal, ship lobbyists got busy on sympathetic Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina (TIME...
...American people's faith in education as a cure-all is misplaced. Reasons: education is 1) an institutional straitjacket, 2) too slow. "This great faith in gradualness . . . assumes what may be called the haystack theory of social problems, that is, that our culture confronts a fixed quantum of problems which are being slowly carted away by 'progress,' each load reducing the total awaiting removal. Actually, however, the culture appears to be piling up problems faster than the slow horse-and-haywagon process of liberal change through education and reform is able to dispose of them...
Rube adjusted himself quickly to his new profession. His first cartoon showed Franklin Roosevelt holding a stopwatch over Industry struggling to escape from a straitjacket. Caption: EVEN HOUDINI COULDN'T DO THIS ONE. Nos. 2 and 3 were equally unfunny, but Rube promised his fans that the Sun would soon publish his design for an apparatus to collect War debts...
...Piker & Cohn never put a D. T. patient in a straitjacket. They hog-tie him only when they lack enough robust nurses to gentle the patient...
...Jewish writer,* served on three fronts (southeastern Europe, before Verdun, in Russia) in the German Army. A pre-War writer of national reputation, with many a story and play to his credit, the War that changed him from an intelligent, independent man to a numbered pawn was a crippling straitjacket. Like Bertin, he decided: "More lies will be told about this war than any other international shooting-match. The survivors must tell the truth, and some of those who have a story to tell will survive." In 1933 he left Germany, is now, in company with every first-rate German...