Word: commandeering
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During the election campaign, ex-Premier Paul Painlevé, pacifist, academician, the man reputed to have favored pacifism during the War, yet took such delight in claiming responsibility for the appointment of le maréchal Foch to supreme command of the French Army that he wrote a book about it, this man was reported in the Écho de Paris to have said: "Citoyens! The bloc National is the cause of all our national calamities. ... I am French, but I am European. . . . Liberty, fraternity, socialism! . . . Peace with Soviet Russia! . . . Above all peace with republican and pacific Germany...
...President rose to greatness from humble beginnings. When he was a plain Tuchun things were easier. Now he is President, "anything but a scholar" and not understanding the intricacies of politics, he is at a grave disadvantage. Instead of being surrounded by an army eager to obey his command he is surrounded by an army of "corrupt, selfish, intriguing and clever" politicians eager to command him. This is why he is "sick and unhappy...
Homer St. Gaudens, with a knowledge of Art, coupled with fluent command of French and German, was chosen to aid the U.S. camouflage corps. He was instrumental in building up this new and important corps of the Army, showing great ability as an organizer and leader. In France he was known to his, men as " Silk Hat Harry"?a name gleaned from his own phraseology in describing the effect of walking across grass as similar to that acquired in brushing a silk hat. During the German drive on Paris in the early part of June, 1918, when the Second...
Quoting from Mr. Leonard, "Prohibition is really nothing but an overgrown police regulation, puffed up with pseudo-religious bigotry and a dash of second-hand prairie Puritanism." I admire such an excellent command over the English language, but should like to point out that this statement is quite contrary to the facts involved. This "tyrannical decree" "In defiance of public opinion" was already in existence in thirty-three States of the Union before the Eighteenth Amendment was put before the people. The first Liquor Law was enacted in Maine more than fifty years ago. This was not an upstart regulation...
...original drawings for Wilderness. The surprising characteristic is the direct and sure technique, with few alterations and erasures. More recent works are Figure Head, the prow of a ship against a black night sea; The House of Dread, The Burial of a Young Man. Kent shows a command of the mysterious-not the deep, impenetrable mystery of the warm Russians, but a clear, clean mystery, inspired by arctic nights and a cold climate...