Word: tocsined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Education's myriad Wirts were ready for anything up to and including a Communist tocsin when the American Historical Association's Social Studies Commission finally announced its conclusions last week. Since January, when the report was scheduled to appear, campus & classroom have smoked with rumors of radicalism and suppression. Scripps-Howard Columnist Harry Elmer Barnes, onetime sociology professor, got an advance peek at the report, called it "the most revolutionary and significant document in American education since the days of Horace Mann." A first-rate, head-rolling revolution is what the Commission wants, but in Education, not Government...
...West galvanized the attention of European and U. S. intellectuals, caused a hopeful pricking-up of Asiatic ears. Uncompromising pessimist, Spengler sounded the knell of Western civilization, which he said had passed maturity, was beginning a swift senescence. No defeatist, in The Hour of Decision he rings a tocsin...
...second quarter of the 20th Century in frantic search for a Turning Point, may very well seize upon the "Ulysses" decision as its symbol. Here was a judicial opinion which, a few years before, might have caused bonfires to be lit from Coast to Coast as the tocsin rang out its warning to the pure in mind. It was couched in language which almost any intelligent person might read and even enjoy, being free from the customary pomposity and elephantic periods of the bench. It stated quite clearly that to call a sincere effort "to show how the screen...
Author Sayre's Rackety Rax got a good press and went to Hollywood; Hizzoner the Mayor deserves an even better fate. Riotously jovial satire, it sets ringing no tocsin of reform but the welkin echoes its topical tintinnabulations. Aside from and under its uproarious humor, Hizzoner the Mayor has grimmer implications that need underlining nowadays for few U. S. citizens. In the perennial Augean task of turning the rascals out, such hearty slapstick broom-thwacks as Author Sayre's may be as effective in the long run as all the Herculean street-cleaning apparatus of a Judge Seabury...
Thus small Belgium sounded the first official tocsin against German monarchists whose activity revived as soon as President von Hindenburg called into being the Fatherland's reactionary "Cabinet of Monocles" (TIME, June 13). Cartoons for and against the Hohenzollerns are printed almost daily in German papers of all sorts. But among the monarchists there are indeed grave "disagreements." Most monarchists are content to wait for a sudden, national emergency, such as the death of 85-year-old Paul von Hindenburg. They would then push forward "as a stabilizing influence" a Hohenzollern? not as Kaiser but as "German Regent." In Bavaria...