Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successful Third Army General was Armando Diaz. Cadorna was brushed aside and Diaz became Commander-in-Chief on Nov. 9, 1917. Within 360 days he had not only retrieved the losses of Caporetto but shattered the Austro-Hungarian armies and forced the Dual Monarchy to sign an abject separate peace...
Wroth with the treatment accorded a New York night club by Prohibition officers armed with axes, the Evening World says flatly, "It is incredible that any people, not abject slaves under the rule of tyrants, will tolerate such infamies indefinitely. It this is what Prohibition means, then it is time to get rid of Prohibition." To the student of American history, this statement will have a familiar ring, but events seem to justify it. It was to the tune of a number of contemptuous cartoons that the lid dropped on Boston during the New Year's celebration, and the warning...
...ignore it as long as she can. The situation comes to a head, however, when Mortimer, husband of Marie Louise, bursts in, and accuses John and Marie Louise before Constance. The latter, clever lady, concocts a magnificent alibi for her husband and his mistress, and Mortimer goes away, abject, to buy his wife a string of pearls, as heart-balm for his suspicions of her. Constance then advises Marie Louise and Mortimer to go away for a year, which they do. It then appears that Constance was no more annoyed than she was, because she holds a theory that marriage...
...Faubion, a fellow-passenger in the second class, but resists her frankly sensual charms; when lo! stealing a walk on the first class promenade, he encounters Cynthia, who announces her engagement to someone else. Demarest slinks back to his own deck writes Cynthia a series of decreasingly abject letters, none of which he sends, and before docking has let Mrs. Faubion enter his stateroom. Flood novel technique not only permits but requires an immense quantity of flotsam and jetsam. The writer may, and must, sub merge himself and watch, like a submarine artist, for a phantasma goria of mental...
...will agree that the abolition of public nuisances are the desired objects rather than abject abstinence. That the amendment was not framed in a suitable way to attain that end, that it has not even attained its literal object, may be true but as assertions, these beliefs do not prove that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...