Word: behest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then she was moved to insure the permanency of her creation by making the nation responsible for it. To generosity ($100,000 and $28,200 per annum) she had to add ingenuity, but she achieved her end. Now-for expense is no object-Europe is combed at her behest, native genius is more than ever encouraged and at least one art flourishes at the political but not the artistic U. S. capital...
...advocating that "revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates, the while about glory, salvation...
...religion. If by that revered word is meant those narrow, dogmatic views which condemn those who do not conform, which are founded on and thrive on superstition, fear and ignorance, and the devotees of which feel it their duty to show their piety by publicly kow-towing at the behest of some dervish who prates the while about glory, salvation and sin--then we may safely and thankfully say that Harvard is lacking religious ardor. And--it is well to bear in mind that Harvard's freedom from religious narrowness and bigotry has been and is one of the many...
...Artist Saint Gaudens modeled for the U.S. Treasury. He designed a $10 gold piece with a Liberty head, to which, at President Roosevelt's behest, he added an Indian warbonnet. This is known as the Mary Cunningham design- posed by an Irish maid. The Saint Gaudens $20 gold piece, showing a full-length Liberty, was modeled from a Swedish woman up to the neck, and the profile head from the Irish model...
...this dependence is not without reason as past experiences have so admirably demonstrated. Aid has over been readily forthcoming. A squadron of destroyers can be relied upon to turn up pleasantly in an obstreperous foreign port or an corrective note may be dutifully dispatched to Mexico at oil's behest. Occasionally these acts are justified; often of dubious propriety. At all events the inevitable cut to take from this motherly care is to expect more pampering, even in France where the docility of a Siberia is hardly operative...