Word: charlatan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obscure as may be the theory of Technocracy, your article was more befuddled. Howard Scott may be a charlatan, but does this condemn the findings of the much-discussed Columbia coterie...
...more personal business, but Jonathan Swift has the upper hand, begins speaking with despairing eloquence about Vanessa, who proposed marriage to him; Stella, whom he loved; Ireland, which he admired; himself, whom he despised. The poetic Swift confessional is interesting, intelligible to none except the eager student. The charlatan medium dismisses her congregation, counts her money, prepares to retire. But as she makes her way to bed, Swift's spirit returns, keeps on talking even through her uncomprehending yawns...
...dear friend Fokine: I am ending my life by suicide because I cannot bear any longer the slander and persecution of the ballet. It may be that my jump into Niagara Falls will sufficiently disturb you and others to set back the self-inflated modernists. A greater charlatan article in Plain Dealer of Sept. 13, 1931, I have never seen. . . .* This will kill me. . . . The time will come when [Doris Humphrey's statements] will be recollected with bitter shame. . . . Now Ruth St. Denis is dreaming about a religious dance and does not see that the classical ballad dance...
...heads of cultural organizations, educational schools and colleges, whom do they invite as dance instructors? Persons who have graduated from charlatan schools in New York, who have received gold medals and diplomas for a few weeks or months of work? What do they know? These people must hate the ballet, for it requires many and many years of study, and one should begin at an early age and one must have talent...
...emotions with neglect of the discriminating intelligence. The Consumer's Research Bulletin is finding wide approval. Mr. Batten has done a service by describing the plight of the advertising man of principle, who must compete with his less ethical collegue, and by placing the responsibility for our charlatan industrial life where it belongs, on the public. When, and only when individual consumers resolve not to buy any article whose advertisers insult his intelligence, will this profession become what it should be, "nothing but the dissemination of the truth...