Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nothing kept Washington from attending this Convention. As a matter of fact Washington was invited to attend this proposed Convention even before it had the sanction of Congress. At that time he declined, giving as his reason that he had previously declined the invitation of his comrades in arms, the Society of the Cincinnati, to come to Philadelphia and be its president. The real reason was that the call for the Convention had not as yet received the authorization of Congress. When Congress finally sanctioned the Convention, he accepted at once. It is true that he was suffering from rheumatism...
...from Wilson, disappeared in a moment. . . . If we fail [in maintaining the League] it will be the duty of the Government to look after the interests of this country first and quickly. If an agreement is reached we will then . . . have limits up to which we can arm, and it will be our duty to make ourselves as competent as we may up to that limit." To pacifists the only crumb of comfort was thrown by Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Britain's best-known and most articulate military strategist. Capt. Liddell Hart is the author of The Real...
Grapevine information from the remoter parishes of Louisiana indicates that Senator Long's constituents are not disposed to take undue alarm at the Harvard Liberal Club's call to arms. Some of those constituents were indeed disturbed not long ago by word that one lone New Yorker had whanged the Senator in the eye and got away with it, but when he explained that he was ganged by four or five ruffians his loyal supporters said that was all right, a thing, which might happen to anybody. There is no intimation that the Harvard Liberal Club intends...
Surely it should not require a year to mould the prospective scholar into ductile shape for upperclass work; at least, that year should involve a progress beyond his intellectual adolescence. The standards in the elemental subjects with which the prospect has chosen to arm himself to pass the Chairman of Admissions must be raised so that these subjects need not be taught to such students in College in their introductory form. None would suggest the elimination of primary courses, but they should become the canape rather than the cocktail of the freshman year...
...temper as he was in his estimation of Roosevelt's naivete; the people are, in fact, damn sick and tired of these Clean Cut Young Men; Mr. James Cagney has been substituted as a somewhat bawdier idol, and even the self-conscious college rake with a girl on his arm, a flask on his hip, and a vacuum in his head is held to be preferable to young Master Purity. Roosevelt's rebuke to Lindbergh--even though it does smack somewhat of a teapot tempest--will be loudly cheered by those unfortunate men who do not look as though they...