half-mawkish

Updated: May 8, 2025

Those who recall the way in which ``the boy orator of the Platte'' became the Democratic candidate for the Chief Magistracy over seventy millions of people, on account of a few half-mawkish, half- blasphemous phrases in a convention speech, can bear witness to the necessity of a reform in this particular a reform which will forbid a sensation-seeking city mob to usurp the function of the whole people of our Republic.

Andrew Dickson White - Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1