Word: slackers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Mr. Sachs achieved his ambition. He came forward with a girl who swore that famed Philadelphia draft-dodger Bergdoll committed an immoral act with her, in Heidelberg, some three years ago. Mr. Sachs openly and publicly exulted when slacker Bergdoll was clapped into jail at Mosbach, Germany, while the Mosbach police "investigated...
Noble Newport Potts, President of the National Patriotic Council. She sent Mrs. Moore a 1,000-word letter desiring categorical replies to such questions as "Will your conference . . . fail to open any session with prayer ?" "Will your conference . . . permit to be distributed . . . ultra-pacifistic literature including the horrible 'slacker's oath' wherein spineless young men promise never to fight for their country . . . and soulless women agree never to sew a bandage. . . ?" Were any persons listed in one R. M. Whitney's book Reds in America to speak...
...number of the Bean Pot, you have, I feel, gone beyond all bounds. You have filled the pages with material obviously intended to cast ridicule upon the one organization of Boston University which directly represents your nation's honor. You have adopted the tone of the pacifist, the slacker, the renegade, and the traitor. You have produced a magazine which is a disgrace to Boston University...
...result of the deepened interest in intellectual pursuits must not be overlooked," says Professor Moore. "To do a man's best, according to his ability, in whatever he puts his hand and mind to, is properly reckoned a sure test of character; the slacker and loafer are rightly despised. To stimulate young men to do their best in college is to help them build the character that should result from a college education...
...result of the deepened interest in intellectual pursuits must not be overlooked. To do a man's best, according to his ability, in whatever he puts his hand and mind to is properly reckoned a sure test of character: the slacker and loafer are rightly despised. To stimulate young men to do their best in college is to help them build the character that should result from a college education...