Word: macdonaldization
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...vote on a minor issue in the Commons Tuesday is a reliable barometer mark of a coming political storm, Ramsay MacDonald's Labor ministry may fall. Although the London Conference might capsize in the wake of such an upheaval, there will also result a strengthening of the incipient coalition between Liberals and Conservatives. Lloyd George, since the war powerless to act upon his own, has, with his followers, been a constantly vacillating figure in English policies. The dignified Parlementarians have thrown aside their supposedly ingrained convictions and have turned to the pleasant game of free-lancing. That...
...latter's origin three or four decades back was inspired by the desire on the part of enlightened socialists to relieve the working classes and to bring government more closely in line with the performance of services directly to the people's benefit. Now, with defeat looming up, MacDonald's party is attacked on its most vulnerable flank, the unemployment problem. The Laborites, in short, are being ejected from the Treasury Bench for not sufficiently aiding the laborers. Fortune's wheel swings round and round, but the politicians, dodging under elaborate nomenclature, are still up to their old tricks...
...laurels for individual presentations go quite unchallenged to O. P. Heggie who gives a thoroughly convincing and extremely clever portrayal of Louis XI, never once exceeding the bounds of his role, playing his part with a moderation and yet sufficient variety to render it altogether charming and adequate. Jeannette MacDonald is also noteworthy for her ability as well as for her good looks, and does excellently except at those times when she is inveigled into singing, which spoils the dramatic effect entirely; be it said, however, that her voice completely makes up for any momentary loss of prestige. Lillian Roth...
...pass over your account of how "Mysterious MacDonald," apparently a rich and powerful New York financier, recently accepted the title of Marquis from the Pope...
...impossible that the Ruler of the Papal State should ever declare war upon us. The worst harm that George Marquis MacDonald of 149 Broadway can probably do by carrying his new loyalty to its logical conclusion is not apt to involve the crime of High Treason. But what of the long roll called in your last issue of men and women who have just received decorations from Greece. Italy, Spain and France...