Word: totteringly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disillusionment is the keynote of the age. History refutes herself, and under the merciless glare of modern research our once-revered idols totter on feet of veriest clay. Mark Twain started the thankless job. Unflinchingly he exposed the Father of our country, showing not only that the magnificent truth about the cherry tree was a sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that...
What makes the "Tribune's" rude disclosure so embarrassing is that only a few weeks past word came from Cambridge in old England that in its opinion our Harvard-Radcliffe arrangement was perfect. How the firmest foundations crumble and totter in these cruel days! If we uttered a prayer not long ago that Cornell be saved for mankind from the inroads of ambitious women, we utter the same prayer for ourselves more fervently than over, now that our danger has been demonstrated to be so close and so real. To the pessimist there can be little hope; to the optimists...
...again! Springing from unknown parentage last year, it has staggered along a chequered path, and only saved itself from collapse last month by resorting to the well-known ruse of the possum. By playing dead for one issue it has been able to recover enough vitality to totter around for one more lap before its inevitable fall...