Word: democratism
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...reply to various stories concerning the wherefore of his guard, young Mr. Coolidge last week told a newsgatherer at Amherst, Mass.: "They have to take someone for a ride. I suppose I might as well be the one. I don't mind it. It's probably some Democrat who wants to get something off his chest...
...fold struggle: the creation of a perfect art, and the elevation of humanity to the point of appreciating it. In the first, Walter Damrosch is no pre-eminent figure. In the second, he is perhaps the greatest of all. Despite his drawing room graces, he is, at heart, a democrat. He works less for the highest perfection than for the most good. Sir Thomas Beecham, patrician British conductor, fled England when the government decided to subsidize radio broadcasting, avowed: "Broadcasting . . . bears as much relation to art as the roaring of the bull of Bashan bears to the voice of Galli...
...Vatican prejudicing the freedom of our political life it is not the ancient Vatican at Rome, but the browbeating Vatican which the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church has erected just across from the United States Senate Office Building.... As a Democrat I am not only disgusted with Prohibition, but I have, I confess, grown restive under the long exclusion of the Democratic party from power...
Next day, Senator George of Georgia did get into the papers because he, a Democrat, said in Washington that Southern textile industries and farmers want a protective tariff...
...warp and woof of New Bedford, Mass., textile city, scurried to the polls last week, pasted little stickers on many a ballot. On each sticker was the name of Charles Sumner Ashley, Democrat. When the ballots were counted it was found that "Sticker" Ashley had been elected Mayor by a majority of some 6,000 votes...