Word: label
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while he practically choked at the slanders circulated-often by Bernard himself-about the Shaw clan. The Shaws, after all, he says, can be traced all the way back to 12th-Century Scotland, and it was perfectly outrageous for Bernard to portray them as shabby-genteel failures, and to label his own pa a hopeless and horrible drunk...
...second birthday Pins and Needles had played 865 Broadway performances; longest previous run for a musical show was Irene, with 670. Every girl in the cast now sports a fur coat with a union label...
Definition. What is a liberal? Only political cynics could call liberalism a refuge for people of no opinions. If it were only a refuge, greater mystery would be why something called literalism is an important U. S. political force, why the liberal label is still prized by politicos and pundits. But if U. S. voters could not identify liberalism, they could spot a liberal without trouble. Liberal, in the sense that he is an ex-New Republican, is Columnist Walter Lippmann. Liberal also is Historian Charles Beard. While Liberal Lippmann plumped for repeal of the arms embargo, hammered...
...Franklin Roosevelt a liberal? Few could agree whether he is or not. But nobody doubted that he prized the liberal label; fortnight ago he defined a radical as a man standing on his head, a conservative as a man standing still, a reactionary as a man going backwards, a liberal as a man who used his legs, hands and head. No liberal could agree with such a crude distinction, but liberals would look pretty foolish denying that they were people who used their legs, hands and head...
...radio speech on the New York Herald Tribune Forum. Said he: "In and out of Congress we have heard orators and commentators and others beating their breasts and proclaiming against sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields of Europe. That I do not hesitate to label as one of the worst fakes in current history. . . . The simple truth is that no person in any responsible place in the National Administration ... or in any State Government, or in any city government, or in any county government, has ever suggested in any shape, manner or form the remotest...