Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easily into the groove of Texas politics, where a good show is worth more than a bundle of issues. As a youth he began patterning his clothes and hairdo after William Jennings Bryan's. He sharpened his naturally agile tongue on the works of Texas' once-famed skeptic, Brann the Iconoclast. He became an enthusiastic lodge-joiner and speaker at fraternal gatherings far & wide. By the time he was ready to run for Congress in 1916 he knew all the tricks...
...conversion of Sir Oliver Lodge also moved Sir Max Beerbohm to draw one of his funniest imaginary confrontations, in which Convert Lodge and Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, a British skeptic about spiritualism, look at each other and wonder at an ectoplasmic enigma...
Having been a maverick philosopher who strayed into law, Holmes increasingly became a maverick justice who strayed into philosophy. His skepticism ("The skeptic cannot be a pessimist") brought him into conflict with the uncritical optimism of those liberals and progressives who claimed him for their own. Said he: "I believe that the wholesale social regeneration which so many now seem to expect . . . cannot be affected appreciably by tinkering with the institution of property, but only by taking in hand life. . . . The notion that with socialized property we should have women free and a piano for everybody seems...
Cambridge, being a heavily industrialized town, has more than its share of impoverished or needy citizens. A visit to the environs of the Lever Bros. plant would be enough evidence to convince the skeptic of this problem. And these needy are benefited only slightly by the increase in war jobs, since some form of physical disability often prevents any form of labor...
...turned out, the lady our skeptic quizzed upon entering Baker 217 was not a secretary, but Dr. Larsen herself. While mumbling his confusion and things about "thought you were a man , and just wanted to ask you a few questions," he went boldly ahead. "I've been disillusioned five successive times by my B.P.A.'s, and have decided that it is about time to do something about it. After all, it takes a man's outlook to appreciate business problems, and I don't think girls can possibly...