10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUGWUMPISH»
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mugwumpish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mugwumpish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
News and the British World: The Emergence of an Imperial ...
... dine with him immediately afterwards'.55 Leopold Amery similarly warned
Geoffrey Robinson, prior to his appointment as Times Johannesburg
correspondent, that he should avoid exaggerated language that would offend the
'mugwumpish' ...
2
Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the ...
... from the mugwumpish Municipal Association. Elected mayor in 1895 as a
Republican, McKisson saw the Hanna machine turn against him and support his
Democratic opponent in 1899. To further disorganize matters, the Democrat-
inclined ...
3
You Can't Kill the Multiverse: But You Can Mess With its Head
“Uhh, no,on second thought, coffeeputs myarms tosleep.I'dlike –” Blunt consulted
the menu, “uhh...mugwump juice?” Malvoncellious' eyes grewbigger shookhis
head. “No...no, I'm not andhe emphatically feeling very...mugwumpish today.
4
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism
... the organization of collective insurgency. As C. Wright Mills notes, this insight
partly explains why Dewey has been rather liberally mugwumpish in politics, and
why "action" is not linked with a sizable organization, a movement, a party with a
...
But they need not fear, timid souls! They may still propitiate plutocratic opinion by
disclaiming identification with the virile fighting force that is already lifting the
working class out of the bogs and quagmires of mugwumpish parliamentarism.
6
Being Salt: A Theology of an Ordered Church
This seemingly mugwumpish answer iswiser than itfirst appears, for practice
does proceed, with reasons running along after. Furthermore, the practice
endures long after the reasons are forgotten. Itis felicitous that our practices donot
have ...
7
Hedge of Wild Almonds: South Africa, the Pro-Boers & the ...
(Butler Family Papers (5) PR 3483.) In May 1901 , the Midland News received a
Dutch letter of thanks for not showing one side only. Another letter, however, said
it had no backbone; it had always been 1 58 a thoroughly mugwumpish journal; ...
8
Literary Criticisms of Law
The grand style of the generalist ended with the Civil War. To be sure, the old
model of the lawyer as cultural statesman may have survived in a rather
mugwumpish way. But if the lawyer represented cultural values, it was no longer
as the ...
Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg, 2000
9
American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: ...
In Whiting's treatment, the great abolitionist and passionately egalitarian labor
reformer — arguably the last patrician influenced by republicanism — became a
mugwumpish devotee of service engaged in the patronizing politics of moral
uplift.
Clover and Henry reached his bedside in Cambridge almost as rapidly as her
Sunday letter, which bubbled with news of the "Mugwumpish tendencies" of
Cleveland's appointments. She stayed on with the anxious family to help nurse
the old ...
