Word: toadyism
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...Disregard for the law, report padding, bribe taking, sycophancy and the encouragement of toadyism have had a deleterious effect on the moral atmosphere of the society...
...like autocrats . . . as if they alone knew everything, as if only they can say anything relevant and forceful, and as if it is the task of others only to support their opinion. In such an environment, there is created favorable ground for lack of principle, for alien morals, for toadyism and servility...
...William Green and, believe me, there is nothing there"; "a pusillanimous little man who sees ghosts at night"; "the A.F.L. has no head-its neck just grew up and haired over." Furthermore, rumbled old John L., Philip Murray was "innocuous, feeble and namby-pamby," and guilty of "cringing toadyism." For his part, Philip Murray thought (and said only last week) that Green was "an old Fally-doodle...
...various Baltimore newspapers, became editor of The Smart Set (1914-23) with Critic George Jean Nathan; of The American Mercury (1924). Said Nathan of Mencken: "I respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter I have ever met. And he is the fairest, the cleanest, and the most relentless." Delighting to shock, Iconoclast Mencken was once shocked himself: by Author James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Feb. 17). Some of his other books: Ventures into Verse, Damn...
...philosophize a bit on various matters 'touching on and appertaining to' the foreign relations and activities of the State Department, to cabbages and kings, to ambassadors and Americanism, to legations and lickspittles, to snobs and secretaries, and to that mess of pottage of bunk and betrayal, treachery and toadyism, falsehood and flapdoodle, insincerity and insolence, embraced under the comprehensive name of American diplomacy, for which we pay so liberally...