Word: utters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen as "the greatest of all Spaniards"-an absurd contention-the "King business" in Spain ought to be wound up. A critic said: "Such childish logic disguises Liberalism with bigoted reaction. Republicanism may fit new countries ; but, for those with hundreds of years of tradition behind them, it is utter folly. Compare Germany, Austria, Russia, Hungary. Think of the suffering France has gone through to achieve republicanism...
Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, home on leave, spoke at Chicago about Germany. The burden of his speech was that the Experts' Plan stood between Germany and utter ruin. He stressed the importance of the loan to Germany (see REPARATIONS...
...troops of Tuchun Chi made desperate attacks on Shanghai, which continued to hold out despite all predictions of utter defeat. Foreign correspondents with the Chi army said that the fall of Shanghai was only a matter of time, as Chi had a greater and better-equipped army than Lu. One of the reasons of the failure of the Chi troops to defeat Lu decisively was said to be their erratic artillery fire. Terrific bombardments of the enemy lines were made, but as many of the field guns were fired like howitzers, and as the timing of the shells was indifferent...
...corruption than any that this generation of Americans has been called upon to witness. I charge it with complacency in the face of that corruption and with ill will toward the efforts of honest men to expose it. I charge it with gross favoritism to the privileged and with utter disregard of the unprivileged. I charge it with indifference to world peace and with timidity in the conduct of our foreign affairs. I charge it with disorganization, division and incoherence...
These emotional swings in business sentiment must be rather carefully discounted by the conservative student of affairs. In business, as elsewhere, there is no perfect Heaven nor any utter Hell. The worst situation has some promise in it, while there is always something seriously the matter with every "period of prosperity," even from the beginning. The developments of the past two months are quite generally encouraging, yet common sense is still needed to counterbalance the fervid rhetoric of the revivalist school of business prophets...