Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prizewinner: "Like some others, this reviewer smiled at first sight of South of Scranton. It seems reasonable to conclude that the cannon atop the queer turret is symbolic of capitalism." William Germain Dooley of the Boston Evening Transcript: "All very childlike and charming and deliberately naïve-but also completely counterfeit and insincere...
...ve read the story," said Acting sheriff Joseph M. McElroy when the above statement was referred to: "and I have invited the constituents of Robart to visit the 'bastille' to check his accusation. So far I have had no visitors. But come right down and see for yourself why we received the credit we did on the official reports...
...revived Sinclair EPIC, rising from the ashes of the Democratic convention, drove his opponents to fresh despair while his naïve economic reasoning infuriated them. To them, there seemed to be no effective way of bridling this evangel of nonsense. What Mr. Sinclair proposed to do, as they saw it, was to plant a system of Red State-ownership in California, expand it, without limit, until it crushed private enterprise. EPIC, Mr. Sinclair pointed out, could also stand for "End Poverty In Civilization...
...Just as Billy Sunday is the price we pay for failing to educate our baseball players, so Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy is the price we pay for failing to educate our farmers' daughters. ... In all the world it would not be possible to find more naïve nonsense than the Mormon mythology. . . ." (The Profits of Religion) All this was most bewildering to that great mass of impressionable Midwestern settlers in Southern California.* Southern California is a bourgeois paradise. Few sections of the U. S. offer cheaper food and housing. It is the perfect setting for Utopia...
...Commission's investigation, which last week turned mostly to War, Billy Mitchell looked once more upon Army aviation and found it bad. Chief target for his scorn was the Army's performance in carrying airmail. This he characterized as: "A miserable mess. . . . The worst show I've ever seen anywhere. . . . It's a wonder they weren't all killed...