Word: vitriolic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows that Bank of the Manhattan Co. was founded 136 years ago to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." Not so well known is the fact that Manhattan's $575,000,000 Chemical Bank & Trust was originally chartered 112 years ago to manufacture "blue vitriol, alum, alcohol, tartar emetic, refined camphor, borax, copperas, drugs, medicines, paints and dyers' colors." Like its elder rival, Chemical got into banking by opening an office of ''Discount & Deposit...
...dentist, Senator Henrik Shipstead, was seeking renomination against Representative Francis ("Only Ex-Convict In Congress") Shoemaker. While the dignified, gentle Farmer-Laborite Senator remained in Washington until Congress adjourned, made no campaign, his obstreperous opponent filled the Minnesota air with sound and fury. On the stump Candidate Shoemaker poured vitriol on everyone within reach. He was arrested in shirtsleeves, swinging a broomstick, during Minneapolis' truck strike riots. When the vote was counted last week quiet Radical Shipstead had beaten loud Radical Shoemaker no less than 3 to 1. The blatancy of Mr. Shoemaker had been too much for even...
...close to the Hurley probe." When it had retreated safely into the inner pages, the Traveller became increasingly generous and increasingly reserved; the historian's "ut fertur" appeared, all statements were pegged on to "competent observers", and learned "on good authority." In other words, the Traveller must dilute its vitriol; but holds which are barred in six point type are legalized in ninety six point, where they may be expected to do the most harm, or the greatest service...
...critique on Thorstein Veblen by Ernest Sutherland Bates. Mr. Bates has been charmed away from the truth, one feels, by a romantic sympathy for the immigrant Scandinavian, for his racial humiliation by the native Americans of Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is supposed to explain much of Veblen's vitriol as a critic of the economic society in which he lived and of the leisure class which is its characteristic by-product. If it were so, it might explain the vitriol very well, but Mr. Bates has gone no farther than assumption, and against his assumption stand the steep national pride...
...would seem nearer to the truth to assign Veblen's vitriol to clear eyes and a sharp critical talent. More than any other man of the twentieth century, Veblen pierced the syllogized "classical economics" with its ridiculous labor equations and its mumbo jumbo on the credit system. It is through no fault of his that these things persist in the colleges of the nation, for much of his energy was spent in attempting to force them out. Mr. Bates remarks that he was handicapped, in his later years, by a delusion of prophecy that made him see himself...