Word: aver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mixed races of the Greek islands and of Thrace and Eastern Macedonia on the mainland, whence come Greece's crack troops, the kilted Evzones. For money he had his wife's fortune, estimated at $15,000,000, inherited from her father. He soon had the armored cruiser Aver off and the cruiser-minelayer Helle, either one of which is capable of blowing the rest of the Greek Navy out of the water. His best card was his battle cry that he was saving the Republic from the monarchist machinations of Premier Tsaldaris...
What kept the balance for the Government were airplanes, but they were mostly light pursuit planes, good for strafing troops but unable to carry big enough bombs to hurt the Aver off much. The "pure Greeks" of the mainland were loyal to the Government but apathetic. And the Government command was divided between Tsaldaris' two formidable partners, wily Monarchist John Metaxas, Minister without portfolio, and a rough-&-ready soldier, General George Kondylis, Minister of War, who promptly took charge in the field and had himself promoted to Field Marshal...
Bestirred with such ballyhoo, the aver age playgoer might have been justified in expecting more than the moments of sensuous beauty he got at Within the Gates. Mr. O'Casey's point is that the world has been considerably upset since the War, that Capitalism can offer no security, that in the crisis Mother Church has been discovered to be a humbug...
...feels little amazement on hearing that the Model League of Nations is making plans for another Jamboree to take place in January. The Model League has been treated in these columns before; it was remarked that the organization filled definite and justifiable functions. It does not, though many might aver that it did titillate the undergraduate's fancy for international logrolling, and make a diplomatic expert of him. Coldly scrutinized, it seems with a few notable exceptions to leave him unruffled and even indifferent...
...died last year. He proposed and wrote the first play, The Man of the Forest. In 1911 his Natoma was set to music by Victor Herbert, produced in Philadelphia with Mary Garden and John McCormack.' The best western composers have contributed scores for the Grove plays and Bohemians aver that much beautiful music is thereby lost to the world, as the plays are seldom given public performance...