Word: afar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different order is the grand manner of Mr. Curtis. He has ransacked the ends of the world to fill the Post with daily tidings from afar. He has fattened and sleekened every page, stinting nothing to give his creature an air of brisk, full-blooded opulence and suavity. Where the Times drones and expatiates with the pensiveness of a scholarly, grey bearded statistician; where the Herald-Tribune stands brightly but carefully pat like a promising young member of the Stock Exchange; where the World, like a self-made man with brains, ideals and a deep vein of cynicism, cloaks terse...
...trial began, Radoslavoff interested from afar. For one year the trial dragged on, at the end of which the Judges decided that as the Ministers were charged with wronging the people, the people ought to decide on the guilt of the accused. The people found them guilty and they were condemned last year to imprisonment for life with hard labor. Radoslavoff, in Berlin, called it laughable; the unfortunate eleven condemned ex-Ministers (one died in prison, one was still in Berlin) saw nothing funny in the situation...
Fourth Day. Next morning three gigantic American shot-putters-Clarence Houser, Glenn Hartranft, Ralph G. Hills-strode determinedly out of the locker-room. Picking up their missiles they catapulted them afar, shook hands with each other, strode back to the locker-room. Down came the Finnish flag, up went America...
Only 2,000 were allowed to goose-step into Halle for the unveiling ceremony; some 70,000 remained, outside the town and made a great noise from afar. It was the greatest monarchial demonstration seen in Germany since...
...peace plan, announced from afar by his big voice, consisted entire- ly of a few whereases and a suggestion that the President call an international conference to make arbitration treaties...