Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merely look upon the American democracy as something that rests upon inalienable rights and universal principles, a paragon of excellence which the rest of the world ought to copy but does not. Hence our laws insist that the Constitution be studied in our schools and colleges with due regard for the sanctity of the text and with no taint of higher criticism, but rather in all its textual literalness--that is to say, in the same uncritical spirit that characterizes the fundamentalist approach to the first chapter of Genesis...
These phrases and slogans, I believe, are accepted as gospel by the great majority of our people. They are taken on faith by men and women who insist on nationality in religion. Yet it can readily be demonstrated that no one of these principles is true without large qualifications, while some of them embody only a half truth or no truth at all. They have come down to us from earlier days, enshrined in the literature of patriotism, and so often reiterated from generation to generation that they have become a sort of biological inheritance. They are firmly stamped...
...Little Spitfire. Little originality has beamed along the Rialto so far this season. Perhaps wary producers insist upon tried successes of former seasons, revamped and relabeled. The Little Spitfire is just another one of those Irene formula shows, with a working girl marrying into Southampton. Customary society crooks complicate matters before the dowager accepts her daughter-in-law. In all fairness, a good cast does almost make a play out of this. As the titular heroine, Sylvia Field spits and flares conscientiously and with charm. Possible success of the show, however, if any, will redound mainly to the credit...
...Vatican heard without comment that drops of red liquid flowed from the eyes of an obscure "Virgin and Child," a fresco on a building now being demolished, in Milan. Townswomen insist this was blood and was a sign of the Virgin's displeasure "at the men folk, who swear too much...
...North Carolina local statesmen insist that the government should work at a process of recovering potassium from feldspar, a hard, glass-like composite of potassium salts with other minerals (aluminum and silicon). There are great beds of it in the green sands of New Jersey, the Cartersville slates of Georgia, and the leucite rocks of Wyoming. But the present cost of processing feldspar is far more than $40 a ton, the gage for fertilizer potassium...