Word: commandered
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...that organization remain an Empire. But the British Empire cannot be called a Commonwealth as long as it remains an Empire. And to call it a Commonwealth is a Gross and Shameful perversion of truth, in the interest of creating a favorable impression for an institution that may not command respect otherwise. To put it mildly, it is only a half-truth. And as Tennyson said...
Much has been written about Marshal Foch in the War; how when he became 65 years of age in 1916, he was retired, as is usual with French Army officers of his rank and age; how, a year later, he was appointed to supreme command of the French Army in succession to General Nivelle-an appointment for which MM. Painleve and Clemenceau still claim the credit; how he became generalissimo of the Allied Armies on the Western Front at a time of acute stress; how his expert strategy succeeded in routing the Germans and how Premier Clemenceau recommended President Poincare...
Although he had won the War by virtue of holding the unified command of all the Entente armies fighting in France, Marshal Foch was deprived of any power at the Paris Peace Conference. He could make speeches, say what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, but that was all. With all his might he counselled France to extend her northeast frontier to the historic and natural boundary of the Rhine; but the anti-Catholic Clemenceau, no lover of Catholic Foch, would not listen. Indeed, Clemenceau would not listen to much more that the Marshal said...
...thing. Modern singers, it is true, are trained to careful diction; but even to the best of singers, words are no more than so many sibilants, dental fricatives, head-tones and gargles. It is often difficult, even for a critic reasonably near the stage and with a command of several languages, to tell what tongue an opera singer is enraptured in, unless he cheats by looking at the program. Great poets are sensitive. To hear their lines thus trilled, gargled, causes them inconceivable anguish; they seldom write librettos. Yet U. S. audiences, hearing opera in French, German, Russian, Italian, care...
...running at tradition's stirrup, has employed style as a thrilling, necessary but irrelevant mechanism for the exaltation of personality, of subject; yet it is only by virtue of this mechanism that he is an artist at all. He succeeds or fails merely in the extent of his command over it. If line, color, form, alone are Art, say such moderns as the Four Blue Ones, the intrusion of anything else is corruption. As a sonata is composed of a series of audile sensations called chords, a painting is composed of a series of visual sensations. Artists should...