Word: destroyer
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Shaw's play is totally modernized. English, and even American slang salts the speeches of his characters. His mocking wit runs through it. Yet even Snaw's wit cannot destroy Shaw's emotion. In the writing of this play the old sinner and cynic writes himself down as an incorrigible idealist...
...some of its leaders, must watch out for perilous competition from Germany. Francis P. Garvan, President of the Chemical Foundation, declared at a recent lunch of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers' Association that prominent German capitalists and manufacturers are vainly seeking an alliance with American firms only to destroy them, and will shortly attempt to set up a German-owned dye industry within...
...Dartmouth, not because of any mythical or real association or league, but because of traditional rivalry, approximate equality in size, and similarity in tradition and point of view. The idea of a sublimated tennis tournament with schedules varying from year to year would be something entirely new and would destroy much of the old tradition and spirit. From the Harvard point of view it is perfectly preposterous...
What I have seen in Europe makes me more determined than ever to devote whatever powers I possess to bringing our Government back to the people and to spend the balance of my life in combatting with renewed energy the forces that are tending to undermine and destroy in the United States the American tradition of government by the people...
...entire staff, and other American residents stayed with us through the darkest hours of our calamity like soldiers at posts of duty, giving aid and comfort to our stricken people. Disasters may hurl down monuments of stone and bronze, time may wear them into dust, but nothing can destroy our precious memories of American service and heroism during the most appalling convulsion of the elements in all recorded history...