Word: macdonaldization
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Alvan Tufts Fuller, freespoken Governor of Massachusetts, has a freespoken secretary, one Herman A. MacDonald. Referring publicly to a lately deposed Massachusetts official, Secretary MacDonald called the official "nutty" and said that he was being chased by squirrels. He also called him a "Mexican General...
Alarmed but also annoyed at seeing his bright quip give rise to international complications, Secretary MacDonald sent by special messenger a cleverly equivocal note to Consul Dominguez. "In that statement," he said, "the term 'Mexican General' was used in no way referring to the genuine Mexican generals who have shown ability and valor, but to the guerilla generals in Mexico, who for many years have infested that country to its detriment...
...content with the stirring up of civil tumult, Ex-Registrar Goodwin has taken to the larger field of international diplomacy. The unfortunate situation created by Secretary MacDonald's reference to squirrels and Mexican generals in his statement about Mr. Goodwin is still more entangled by the latter's course. It was bad enough for the Commonwealth to be at sword's points with one foreign power; now Mr. Goodwin would bring Sweden into the fray, and his pointed allusion to the Sacco-Vanzetti commission of last summer may annoy the irritable Signor Mussolini and cause Italy to be arrayed among...
Apple-cheeked Ishbel MacDonald, daughter of onetime Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, was elected, last week, as was also her brother, Malcolm, to the London County Council...
...play opens with a fifteen minute soliloquy from Harvey Bell Smith who is annoyed because his dinner guests are late; when Fifi Sands arrives, last of them all, she is hysterical with happiness because she will at last be able to divorce her rich husband and marry Owen Macdonald. When her son comes in to say that John Sands has been shot, the play breaks into a wild, inharmonious and exciting rhythm; its draughty madness is terrifying, not by virtue of black paws or of guns offstage but because it conveys somehow the impression that God has gone away, that...