Word: leitmotif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leitmotif of this year's set of 28 was, in effect, "Don't pester business. Protect it where necessary...
Shelley's lines and a single sentence from the book explain Dr. Drinkwater's selection of a title: "It is the conflict of Byron, the essential poet, with this other Byron begotten by society upon his weaknesses, that is really the leitmotif of his story...
...Mosul is the centre of important oil fields and oil is the leitmotif in the Allied concerto. Officially, however, Britain claims the right of protecting Mosul by virtue of a League of Nations mandate; Turkey claims it on ethnographical ground; France has a purely financial interest dating back to the Ottoman régime...
...leitmotif of all the later writings of H. G. Wells is education. When therefore Mr. Wells designates a man in measured terms as " the greatest man I have ever known with any degree of intimacy," one is not surprised to find him an educator. The man is Frederick William Sanderson, headmaster of Oundle School, Northamptonshire, England, who died last year at the age of 66 in the height of his powers. He is the hero of a biographical sketch by Wells now running serially in The New Republic...