Word: flank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furious oratorical flank attacks seriously embarrassed the Generalissimo of the Budget, keen, masterful Raymond Poincaré, Prime Minister, Finance Minister, and famed as the man who saved the franc two years ago from utter collapse (TIME...
Brisk and businesslike was the name on his card: "J. Walter Thompson." Brisk and businesslike was the young advertising agent who followed it, some 55 years ago, into the sanctum of Harper's Monthly. Aghast and horrified were the editors who heard his proposal. Flank their belles lettres with a tradesperson's solicitation? As well charge Helmsman Ulysses S. Grant with bottomry. The public would recoil in equal alarm. Young Thompson insisted that back-page advertisements were dignified, profitable. He prevailed...
...soldiers always flank the door of a certain large but unpretentious mansion on the famed Wilhelmstrasse. Changed every few hours, they stand while on duty absolutely motionless, eyes front, shouldering heavy service rifles which are never seen to move, to tremble. Early one morning last week these soldier automatons turned suddenly as though on pivots, snapped to salute, and again became motionless as President Paul von Hindenburg, 81, strode forth with a Feldmarschall's tread, passed down the Wilhelmstrasse into the Taubenstrasse and entered a reeking, beery saloon...
...three well written chapters to the uninteresting youth of Jackson, Mr. Tate almost immediately swings his hero into action--at West Point, in the Mexican War, and finally in the Civil War which was to bring him his great fame and his death from pneumonia shortly after his great flank march at Chancellorsville...
Both to harry Standard Oil on the flank and to boom up Royal Dutch-Shell goodwill throughout the British and Dutch possessions, Sir Henri has been shouting harsh things about Russian petroleum. That oil comes from wells once owned in part by British investors but now confiscated by the Soviet. Standard Oil has been buying it to sell in the East, where it has few wells, but where Royal Dutch-Shell has many. It is more profitable to Standard Oil to ship petroleum from Russia to India than from California to India. Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that...