Word: brandishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time has come for us to assume a less aggressive attitude toward Japan. One cannot brandish the mailed fist at one's neighbor and then complain if he shows unfriendliness. I now believe in the sincerity of Japan's desire to enter once more into negotiations with our Government. . . . As soon as negotiations for the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shantung are completed, we must despatch our own best soldiers to protect the lives and property of Japanese colonists there. . . . Since we are now awaiting the arrival of the new Japanese Minister [to China, M. Yoshizawa], I suggest...
...thunderous landscape on which he finds, among other adventures, his wife who had left him 20 years before and Eve-Ann Ash, the girl he kisses on the last page. This is after Jasper Shrig, detective, has made sure that Fiddling Jackie, not Sir Marmaduke, murdered the disagreeable Squire Brandish; after Mrs. Marmaduke has died; after Author Farnol has once more made readers, of whom there will be many, pant with romantic excitement no less hard than did less hardy readers at The Brood Highway...