Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...average politician, the Public is something to be fawned on one minute and fleeced the next; for the marginal factory owner, it is something to be fleeced always, and fawned on when occasion required. For Mr. Gompers, it is no doubt a Thing whose one function is to have an opinion opposed to most strikes on their merits and against the rest on principle. Some have even doubted the existence of this Public; others have inferred its existence from the trail of havoc it leaves behind, and affirm that they know the particular newspaper office to which it goes each...
...that cannot be revoked, and for that reason they shun it; they consider it something terrible. Were the League this permanent affair that seems to be generally supposed, it truly would be well to hesitate before joining it. But it isn't. I don't aspire to be a politician, but in my travels I have received some impressions that I hope are correct; and these are that this League is not an irrevocable compact, but a means of getting together, of discussing and trying to answer some of the great questions that concern the safety of the whole world...
...June 30th, signs were displayed such as "First our beer, then our tobacco and then --" and "We fought for Democracy and we got Prohibition and Spanish Influenza." Whether prohibition be good or not the reaction against it is a healthy American one. The bloody Bolshevik forgets his paroxysms, the politician his politics, the average man forgets his mediocrity in a loud protest for his friend the bottle. If this is not the voice of the people, what...
...editor despises. According to the "Bookman," "sense" appears as a verb in every form from the "father sensed his son's abstraction" to the "peeling infant sensed the coming of the succulent milk-bottle." "Poignant" is on the blacklist because of its downright stupidity, "stipend" because of its oily politician sound. "Remuneration" is a foolishly long latinized word, and "dainty" and "refined" are classed as belonging to the "chewing gum" variety...
...make their guides. It is impossible to measure the enormous effect upon public life of a man who was for years the foremost in the nation, on the honor of public service. He smashed the conventional ways of thinking and doing, he ignored the maxims of the professional politician, he thought that nations could be carried on like families, with consideration for others, with safeguard of the interests of posterity, with honesty and openness of dealing...