Word: echoingly
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...definition, Eden's talk was a little too general for dictionary use, laid its chief emphasis on international "social security," economic cooperation between nations, without specifying the form it would take. As to Germany's place in Britain's Free Europe, there was more than an echo of Versailles. "We must never forget that Germany is the worst master Europe has yet known. Five times in the last century she has violated the peace. She must never be in a position to play that role again...
...public opinion would not support his policies. This was the voice which had last referred to "honor" by saying that it would prevent action against a former ally. This was the voice which millions had hoped, however much it was forced to say yes to the Nazis, would never echo them...
...mention Huey at all, finally got around to Huey's courage and prowess in debate, ended with a roar: "Friend and foe alike denounced the way he was taken away!" It was a painful show. The backwoods followers of the Kingfish who still loved him could find no echo of their feeling in what was said. The people who still hated him could only wonder how the statue of such a cheap-Jack could be given Capitol-room. The journalists who remembered him found it strange that the outrageous Huey could produce such a dull afternoon...
...Francis Hyde Bang's biography is a rather docile portrait of a personable, energetic, businessman-of-letters making good through capitalizing a bottomless facility for thin wit. It also evokes a rather sterile era in U.S. cultural history. The merry dinners of Bangs and his circle still echo bloodlessly in Manhattan's Century Club, and their humor, which used to roll the genteel families of this continent in the aisles, still lives palely in a few faculty-censored class annals. Today it seems hard to believe that a whole generation could laugh at both Bangs and Mark Twain...
...Hague Conference. No churchgoer himself, he never thought to blame the failure of all the peace conferences he attended on lack of Christianity until he set out to draft a practical set of principles on which a peace conference might succeed. To his surprise, he found them an echo of Christianity, so back to the church he went. Said he last week...