Word: appearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan, even in Republican ranks. Representative Britten of Illinois, ranking Republican of the Naval Affairs Committee, who was not present at the making of the Coolidge-Butler compromise, said: "If the bill does not appropriate for those three cruisers already authorized, the authorization for the ten additional ones would appear to the world as a big bluff...
...American soldier in charge of the oil reserves of the nation had done what he has done he would have been court-martialed and shot. "... I am going to close now with this appropriate quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm, it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. "Shame on those who brought this Fall and Doheny case to a miserable close; shame on those...
...according to necessity." 2) "Men are so simple . . . that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived." 3) "It is unnecessary for a prince to have . . . good qualities . . . but it is very necessary [for him] to appear to have them. ... A prince ought, above all things, always to endeavor in every action to gain for himself the reputation of being a great and remarkable man." 4) "It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat...
Dictator Josef Pilsudski, moody and perverse, scorned even to appear before the recent session of the Polish Sejm (Parliament) which had risen last week for the holidays. Then, impulsively, Marshal Pilsudski decided late one night last week that he wanted to talk to the politicians after...
...find plenty to do here." Eleonore had been rescued from a Rumanian madhouse by an elderly Rumanian countess, after being incarcerated by peasants who believed her a "witch-girl," cursed by her grandmother. Besides the coins flying at her, the observers saw stigmatic markings-teeth marks, weals, pricks-appear on Eleonore's face and arms, spontaneously they were sure...