Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Evil. He has also contributed many articles to magazines and reviews, and the current American Mercury has an article by him entitled The Ordeal of Prohibition, designed to show that it has been the practice of civilized countries to fail to enforce, rather than to repeal, unwise and unpopular laws...
...home, so much so that King Ferdinand has been described as a cipher, which is partly true. She is credited with forcing Rumania into the War on the winning side, she often concludes much State business over the heads of her husband's Ministers which makes her most unpopular with them. She holds sway in a Court which is probably unmatched for it simplicity. She is democratic almost to extremes, always vivacious and entertaining, and despite her years, always fascinating and brilliant, as many a staid business man and clever 'diplomat has known to his cost. In short...
...Kiyoura Government went into office following the attempted assassination of the Prince Regent (TIME, Jan. 7). It was appointed by the Elder Statesmen and was always unpopular, holding power because of the impending wedding of the Prince Regent, a fact which earned for it the appellation "Imperial Wedding Cabinet." †He is not to be confused with Admiral Baron Tomasaburo Kato, onetime Premier, who headed the Japanese delegation at the Washington Arms Conference in 1921 and who died last Fall (TIME, Sept...
...Senior Picnic,--now passed beyond recall, in all probability--may regard with virile contempt the Senior Celebration taking place tonight--not in wild and unpopulated regions, as did its famous predecessors,--but in the confined and domesticated area of the Yard. Instead of the unlawful and justly unpopular activities formerly viewed with such righteous indignation by most of the Seniors, there will be moving pictures. Possibly even that incomparable comedy which was conspicuous by its absence at the 1924 Smoker, and which had previously stimulated such merriment at all gatherings since the Freshman year, will be revived. (Some...
...Bertrand Russell possesses extraordinary courage. He has the moral intensity of a martyr, the intellectual confidence of a great logician, and the calm assurance of an English aristocrat." His experiences with human nature in its least tolerant mood during the war as one of an insignificant and most unpopular minority have not made him more steadfast in his purpose...