Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Henry Tawney, famed Professor of Economics at the University of London, replied to Bishop McConnell by voicing an even more damaging criticism of contemporary Christianity: "I cannot share the complacency of those who talk about all the good things we have to offer backward peoples, when we cannot point out a single country in Europe where there is a real Christian civilization operating throughout its society. . . . We are trying the impossible in offering to save the individual, yet leaving the social structure pagan. ... It is not possible for men and women to accept one standard of social ethics...
...England is a backward, decadent section. Its factories are out-of-date; its inhabitants are idlers; its ideas have not yet emerged from the sperm-oil days. These words (or words less polite) have been spoken and applauded many times at booster meetings of towns to the West and to the South. When the Chicago Tribune castigates "the effete East," it usually refers to New England...
...policy as a newspaper publisher is based on the iron rules my husband followed: accurate and brightly presented news and pictures, a well printed paper and good and truthful advertising." The advertising may be truthful; it is certainly scarce as it is in all French papers, advertisingly backward...
...Prohibition. It is the theory of the New York Times, which is strong for Smith, that if he were elected "he would enforce the Volstead Act more effectively than the present Administration"--apparently on the theory that, as an honest man, he would lean over backward to enforce what he does not believe in. On the other hand, is the theory of the Ku Klux Klan that Smith would open a bar at every corner. Possibly a more realistic theory than either of these predictions is that the Volstead Act, for Congress, has ceased to be a cause...
...minute or two the always late gentleman comes along for a class that began five minutes ago. His derby is tipped rakishly over his ear. The student who had his hat on backward when he got to the class ten minutes before frowns reprovingly as the laggard slides into his seat. Then for another three quarters of an hour hats disappear from the Yard...