Word: commandeering
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...Mellon and Couzens are both very rich men. They are the richest two men in active political life. Each is the case of a man able to command any form of leisure or diversion known to wealth, but foregoing all that and actually working harder at the public business than the most driven laborer...
...General Sir William Birdwood, the famous commander of the Anzac (Australian-New Zealand Army Corps) Division in the War, was transferred from command of the Northern Army, promoted to the rank of Field Marshal and appointed Commander-in-Chief in India. It is the first time in history that an officer has been promoted to the supreme military rank on appointment as the military head of British India...
...logical result of the turmoil would be, it was pointed out, the resignation of the Government. A possibility existed that M. Briand would then be asked to form a Cabinet, but Paris critics thought that he would be unable to command a majority, especially since he is opposed in principle to the present Government's religious policy. It was inferred that the Radical Socialists under Herriot might withhold support from a Briand Government...
...that is grease; worshippers, gazing upon them in the Grand Central Galleries, thought of the famed eggs of history−of Humpty-Dumpty, of the egg of Columbus, even of the fabulous, the cosmic, Egg. For this is the magic of Artist Fechin. He is a superb technician. His command of brushing, of absolute color, is masterly. He deceives the eye, some- times for a minute at a time, into mistaking for a great painting a work which is in reality "no more creative than a virtuoso's playing of a Chopin minuet...
...woman trilled her best but Oh! the stolid faces, Ah! the gaping stalls. Afterwards, downcast, she assailed her agents, saying that they had charged too ninth, advertised too little. The agents politely replied that a singer of Tetrazzini's fame did not need much advertising, that she could command tall rates, but that she should not cheapen her voice by distributing its silver tones over the radio as she did recently (TIME, Mar. 23). Said Tetrazzini: "I don't agree that broadcasting ruins an artist's con cert value or affects her popularity...