Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diversion goes beyond all limits of moderation, it then becomes the recreation only of the uncivil and low-minded. In Italy I remember having noticed on various occasions the name of the late President Woodrow Wilson ridiculed by university publications at a time when that name was most unpopular among the Italian students; but never was their language in any way discourteous or defamatory. I think, Mr. Editor, that for the sake of sane judgment, which is due to all men, including Mussolini, it would be will for our critic to resort to less ambiguity in his mad search...
...Joyce's brand of patriotism would exaggerate that self-complacency which often makes the United States unpopular. The unbalanced patriotism inspired by the teaching of myth as history is necessarily intolerant, in peace as well as in war and blind prejudice in the present is the product of false interpretations of history. America, in following the precepts of Mr. Joyce, would fool no one but itself; but as Bertrand Russell insists, its monstrous self-deception would become a menace to international civilization. If democracy is to survive as a stable form of government, it must be guided by an impartial...
...obliged to consent to his eldest daughter, Yolanda, marrying a poor Italian nobleman because Yolanda obstinately refused to give him up, and now Mafalda has married a poor German Protestant prince, one of a large family in which are three sets of twins! These marriages are very unpopular in Italy, as the Italians feel mortified by them. The King of Italy is now trying to train his two younger daughters to take their proper places in society; his only son, Humbert has always been in his proper position before the Italian public, but his sisters were allowed to run wild...
...stupid face and enormous muscles, won the world's light-heavyweight championship from shifty, tired Mike McTigue. His methods was to plough flat-footed after the Irishman, taking two punches to one for the occasional privilege of bringing home his cemetery left. The referee's decision was unpopular. "A champion is ut," McTigue's followers queried, "that ham an'egger?" They were consoled only because they had seen, in a preliminary bout, a light-heavyweight boxer whose speed and rhythm surpassed anything in the memory of some, and set others thinking of Fitzsimmons and Wolgast...
...arrogance, decided the gallery. Followed the boohs, the hisses. Play began. Miss Wills, despite her poker face, was unnerved by her reception. The British women won the first set 6-0. The rowdies in the gallery roared their delight. Now thoroughly possessed by mob savagery, they jeered linesmen for unpopular decisions, roared down the umpire who tried to silence them, seemed, to feel little aggrieved to see the match, the series, the Wightman Cup, go to the British Women...