Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader McArdle's letter about "Liberals" touches upon a sore point in word-usage What is a "liberal?" No simple definition can be very satisfactory...
Roosevelt a liberal? Pfuey! Not even appraised by the flimsy connotations which still cling to the word is he one. He is a rock-ribbed conservative when the reference is to his own, to what he has struggled to get hold of; and so is every other man. So is John L. Lewis, so is Browder. Each and every one of them has on occasion clawed and bitten and beat the stairs, yelling foul, when thoughtless "liberals" have sought to divide up their powers, perquisites and glories. If there is any meaning left in the word "liberal," 1938 style...
Your invitation in TIME'S flyspeck-nailing department for the brethren to send in their definitions of the word "liberal" and appraisals of its application to Franklin ("The Heart") Roosevelt [TIME, May 9 et seq] ought to bring down on you more echoing bathos than has been heard since the last Fireside Chat...
...Once there was a woman that had done a big washing and hung it on the line. The line broke and let it fall down in the mud, but she didn't say a word: only did it all over again, and this time spread it on the grass, where it couldn't fall...
...word Harvard is copyrighted. It cannot indiscriminately be assumed and used to stand for the whole community...