Word: mightfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clinching victory to solving domestic difficulties the treaty turned from steel to gelatine, yielding at the lightest touch of a Prussian finger. There were some stern remonstrances, some fierce threats. But in the end there has not been much but talk, and precious moments when peace and righteous vengeance might have been insured have been lost...
...that the wires are immediately cut. And then the game of pawns and kings goes on under cover of a rigid censorship. Yet the names of the players seem always to leak out. Those of von Jagow, von Tirpitz and Kapp cannot fail to stir up uneasy memories. It might be pertinent to recall that Lloyd George has not persuaded the Dutch to give up their royal guest. Amerongen is nearer to the scene of action than was Elba...
...German counter-revolution proves as bad as it looks today, possibly the Entente and the United States might have done well to listen to the advice of "French Imperialism." Then Germany would not have dared to have a monarchistic revolt, nor could she have so easily refused the just demands of the Allies by feigning trouble with the Sparticides. As to what the world shall do now, that is another question. We imagine it would be in the nature of a real job for England or the United States to put an army worthy of the name in Germany...
...other hand, Hoover is a constructive worker. He has his eye on the job, and he doesn't deal in platitudes. He takes concrete measures for betterment. He is no mere theorist, no mere social worker who might be led astray by fine ideals, for he is a man who is accustomed to dealing with the great men of the world...
...brand on every Republican who would not meekly indorse "My Policies." The result of it is that the blood of both of the political parties has been impoverished, and in the course of the contests between the right wings and left wings of both organizations, men of ability who might well have aspired to a political career have sought some other means of service...