Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cite General Sherrill, Colonel William Hayward, Colonel Arthur Little and Major Hamilton Fish, all of whom repeatedly and in public have spoken and written in the warmest term's of the devoted loyalty, the unflagging cheerfulness and the unexceled bravery of the Negro troops under their command. Moreover, two of the officers I have named expressed amazement that any troops could bear up under the continual insult, calumny and indignities visited upon the colored men in their command by white men and officers presumably harboring just such an attitude as is revealed in the article of General Bullard...
Exodus. Brigham spellbound the leaderless city, seized command, sold the Mormon temple to a French Communist, led his people a dire trek westward to escape U. S. jurisdiction. By the time they reached Utah, the U. S. had taken that territory from Mexico, but Brigham settled there notwithstanding...
...Significance. It is proper and profitable that a nautical, critical immigrant who has written so noteworthy a book as Casuals of the Sea and such commendable books as Captain Macedoinc's Daughter, Aliens and Command, and who now purposes to become a U. S. citizen, anchored for further writing (a sequel to Race) at Westport, Conn., should remind his new countrymen of the texture of his thought. Grimly opposed to "sea stuff," particularly in the magazines of a landlubber nation, he is himself by no means all sailor. His concern is the large "ineluctable problem of human folly...
French continued his ascent to the top with painstaking, plodding slowness. In the South African War, he was recognized as a commander of great ability, returned home after the peace and was knighted. At the beginning of the World War, having been created a Field Marshal in 1913, he commanded Britain's first expeditionary force. In 1915, he retired in favor of Sir Douglas Haig, returned to England, assumed command of the vast armies stationed in Britain. He was made a viscount, chose the name of Ypres, accepted the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland and held that position until...
...delivered himself of the following utterance to the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers : "In the course of some researches, preliminary to these remarks, I found myself needing a more accurate definition of a certain trade term, no doubt thoroughly familiar to all of you, than I was able to command. The word was 'Rayon.' But when I pulled down the alleged unabridged dictionary on my desk, I searched in vain for it. I finally found it in a technical handbook." It was not charged that quotation of the President in this instance amounted to fraud...