Word: combativeness
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Since the days when Don Quixote went out and charged a windmill many a man has gone crusading for his crotchets. In the pages of London's augustly humorous Punch, Alan Patrick Herbert has for years been waging a single-handed combat against four humorless ogres: Prohibition, the Divorce Law, Commercializing the Thames, Bad English. Last week, in What a Word!, he collected his scattered witticisms against the murderers of His Majesty's English, proclaimed a jehad: "I declare a new and ruthless Word War; and I invite all lovers of good words to buckle on their dictionaries...
That's what New York's decision of constitutionality means in terms of flesh and blood. Perhaps the Law has been upheld, but in that case the law withdraws all protection from private enterprise, and it becomes a question of man to man combat, on one side the particular grafters in charge of the government, on the other the capitalists whose properties are confiscated...
...Chicago last week the Conference of Methodist Laymen chalked up its first substantial victory since it organized last summer to combat "radicalism" in the churches (TIME, Sept. 23). Though it refrained from publicly taking credit for the deed, the Conference had succeeded in easing a Methodist minister named Rev Dr. Archey D. Ball out of the pulpit he had held for four years in First Church Englewood...
...mostly to do with mechanics, hydraulics, aerodynamics. From pedagogy he went to the Artillery. In 1917 he was sent to France where his executive abilities were soon recognized. He organized the A. E. F.'s Line of Communications, later did the same for the Service of Supply, saw combat service in the Argonne...
Henry Wells and William George Fargo were two bearded New Yorkers who banded together in 1844 to combat the powerful express business of Boston's Alvin Adams. Before the fight had gone far, there came the Gold Rush of '49. To Daniel Hale Haskell, an Adams Express clerk, this was a great enticement, which soon led him off to start a California branch. In June 1852, Samuel P. Carter arrived in San Francisco to be general agent for Wells, Fargo & Co. There followed a rip-roaring battle between the two express companies. From it, Writer Wilson has neatly...