Word: commandant
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...nouveaux riches: "They may spend their money giving fetes, parties, balls, and use every device to get into society, or what is left of it, but all their doings will only be a sham. You cannot make a silk purse out of a soused mackerel, neither will they command the same respect." Which leaves the reader somewhat in doubt as to the object of the comparison-and the respect. A book quite without guile, absolutely without discretion, for the most part mildly amusing, on some few occasions, penetrating...
...these interests combined to make Herr Hugo, ordinary member of the Reichstag, a most extraordinary and sinister figure in politics. It has been sad that German Governments heed his command or fail; that, when angry, the thunder of his voice and the lightning of his eyes spread terror into the European industrial world...
...saying that the Scottish Sabbath was a burden. I would like to see a state of society where every man and woman preferred the old Scotch Sabbath to the modern French one, because in that state of society you would have fine, solid, eternal foundations of character and self-command...
...Christ ended His ministry on earth with the great command ... to preach the gospel to all men everywhere. He did not tell us to shoot the gospel into all men everywhere. We are doing a lot of things in the name of Christ nowadays in a manner wholly contrary to anything He ever said or did or taught...
...vanguard of rumors clattered up the road of journalism. The Kafandaris Government had fallen. The Glücksburg dynasty had been ousted. The Republican extremists were in command...