Word: afar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniform in the frontispiece of his book to give readers a foretaste of mischief to come. It comes: should the supply run short in one hemisphere there is bound to be plenty in the other. The doughty general craves trouble as a cat craves fish, can nose it from afar. Do or die is no mere shibboleth to him, but sober truth. "For certain men not to do is to die, to die a spiritual and very disagreeable death. From such a death I have been running all my life...
...prisoner of his State. The prisoners were a boy, an aging man and a political zealot. In one case, California's, the plea was publicly resented as an impudent intrusion. In the other two cases public opinion was chiefly favorable to the prisoner and his advocate from afar...
Meanwhile Governor Long continued to agitate Texas from afar. One night last week a great rally of 7,000 cotton farmers was held in Austin's Wooldridge Park. Governor Long had planned to attend but at the last minute decided not to, lest Lieut. Governor Paul Cyr, his bitter political foe, seize the Louisiana Government in his absence and unmake the Long machine. The Governor's 12-year-old son Russell went to the Texas capital in his place, explaining that: "Papa couldn't leave because he was afraid Lieut. Governor Cyr might make a mess." From slangy William Kennon...
...Give ear ye islands, and hearken ye people from afar...
Russia's Roosevelt. "Glimpsed from afar Stalin seems cold and harsh," cabled Correspondent Lyons, "but at close range his outstanding feature is a broad smile almost as full of teeth as Roosevelt's and, like Roosevelt's, overshadowed by his shaggy mustache. He speaks slowly . . . with broad, oriental gestures. . . . His mind seems automatically to organize its materials into simple forms and words comprehensive to any working man. . . . Stalin and [War Commissar Clemence] Voroshilov [present during the interview] addressed each other by the familiar 'thou'. . . . Intimacy and informality pervade [Stalin's] entire establishment . . . immaculately clean...