Word: assailable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wells. On the second day of the Catholic Congress, up reared the portentous bulk of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. England's three greatest publicists are the Messrs. Shaw, Chesterton and Herbert George Wells. Instead of replying to the Shavian sex sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to assail Mr. Wells, evolutionist. He began by talking about atheists, of whom, he said, the world has very few. "An atheist," he boomed, "is much more difficult to emancipate than any one else because he is, above all people, the narrowest and most completely captive." But Mr. Wells is not even...
Wilhelm II, according to your story, blushed furiously and left the room, only to return later and assail Mackensen for the latter's failure to appear in uniform. Thereupon the Field Marshal is alleged to have repeated his former statement in effect...
...Walker campaign technique was to assail the Whispering Campaign and to make insinuations about the Hoover "Britishness." He referred to Hoover's not voting in the U. S. until after he was 40. "They talk about me being late. Well, there's one thing, anyway, I wasn't late at," said Mayor Walker...
...standing of Smith should find it necessary to refute them, and appeal to the alumnae for further controversion. A typical attack, called "Why the College Sap?" may be found in this month's Ladies Home Journal. For there it reaches the mothers of potential college students, to assail them with serious doubts of the desirability of the college influence. In the optimistic belief that virtue eventually triumphs, this wearisome distortion by persons seldom qualified to speak, can be no great source of alarm. But concentrated on Smith College which has been singularly and blamelessly unfortunate in the associations gathered...
Robinson: "If the Senator cannot recognize it, I do not propose to waste the time of the Senate in telling him. A man of a chivalrous spirit would hold William R. Hearst responsible, rather than assail the wife of William R. Hearst, who is totally inoffensive, so far as I know, in this connection...