Word: flatterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheers. When he rides to ceremonies with President Carmona, the old soldier preens and beams; Salazar slinks back in the car, a scowl on his handsome face with the Savonarola-hard mouth. Asked why he refused to respond to cheers, Salazar gave a characteristic answer: "I could not flatter the people without being a traitor to my own conscience. Our regime is popular but it is not a government of the masses, being neither influenced nor directed by them. These good people who, moved by the excitement of the occasion, cheer me one day, may rise in rebellion the next...
Hard-shell Republicans were confident that he had been rolled out flatter than a gingerbread man. With a spuriously funereal air, the Chicago Tribune published his political obituary: "There was nothing left of Harold, his presumptions or his platform. The result is immensely gratifying . . . Stassen is eliminated . . . he is as dead politically as Willkie after the Wisconsin primary...
Despite its painfully vital theme and generally plausible story, On Whitman Avenue is flattish propaganda and flatter theater. Working from the problem in, instead of from the people out, it consistently substitutes cardboard for flesh & blood, cliches for sharp, individual reactions. Dramatically, moreover, it soon hobbles, eventually halts. Fairly interesting while matters are coming to a head, from then on it can only .repeat its wrangles, restate its issues, and delay its ending...
...commission did not flatter itself that it had the final solution to the Church's problems: "We do not argue that evangelism by advertising will effect conversions [but] we do believe . . . that [it] may prove of incalculable value in the preliminary stage of preparing the soil . . . and can bring into touch with the Church . . . thousands now thirsting for spiritual strength and peace at heart...
Although a bit inadequate, we toss in our bit of confusion by suggesting that: sanitation difficulties, not Dutch tile expeditions, are responsible for the demolition work; and that a jealous Ibis, not hunger-maddened 'Poonsters, did in the dove, a sadder and flatter bird...