Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fundamental object of the fellowship is to provide genuine laboratory experience and training to men interested in the human sciences,--particularly economics, sociology, social ethics,--on their human side. The holder is in residence continuously at the South End House and is in close touch with all its active affairs...
...wish to bring the people into closer touch with their government. The initiative allows the people to propose any measure which the legislature refuses to pass for them. The referendum allows the people to veto any undesirable legislation. Our legislatures no longer represent the people but the trusts who have obtained great power. The initiative and referendum will put an end to the inefficiency of the legislature. The initiative and referendum are intended to supplement the legislature and not to supplant it. We would urge the adoption of the initiative and referendum even where inefficiency and corruption is not rife...
...women in to the wage-earning classes. In closing Mr. Woods spoke of vocation as a field for moral enterprise. A great opportunity, he said for the building up of humanity was to be found in the latent idealism which, although hidden in most people, needed only an awakening touch to reveal...
Gilbert V. Seldes's essay on "The Old Ideal" may fairly be taken as the manifesto of the reaction. Itself a paean in honor of tradition and the aristocratic ideal, it misses through a touch of petulance something of the repose it praises and something of fairness in attributing all the modern characteristics it censures to a socialism that has not yet come to pass. It would be a graceful acknowledgment of the soundness of the idea that the recent policy of the paper erred by over-emphasizing, if in the next number the editors found room for an essay...
Educated broadly in America and in the principal universities of Europe, Mr. Steffens has been well in touch with the new thought of both this country and the continent, and his stand on social and political questions has won for him the title of "anarchist." He is a prominent newspaper and magazine writer, and was sent to Los Angeles to report the McNamara case for the New York Globe. As a partisan of labor, he was largely instrumental in getting the confession of the dynamiters. He became the object of attack of both capital and labor, and though denounced...