Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestion of General Bliss, who was present, General Pershing was selected as commander of the Punitive Expedition. In making this suggestion General Bliss pointed out briefly how Pershing was the logical man as he was on the ground, knew the situation and was thoroughly competent. General Pershing did the best he could notwithstanding the many embarrassing handicaps which .were placed upon him. He demonstrated to the complete satisfaction of the administration that he was a soldier through and through, one who would loyally obey the orders of the Commander-in-Chief without question or complaint. How natural...
...your characterization of this as "bitter and unfair" you may be interested to know of Bernard Shaw's recantation or at least modification of that caustic remark in his Preface to The W. E. A. Education Yearbook (1918) pp. 20, 21 : "This, by the way, is the best answer to my famous gibe, 'He who can do, does: he who can think, teaches' is just as true as the other formula...
Gambling is a production in his best Broadway manner, possessed of a sharp, exciting first act, a specious but persuasive denouement and a cast that includes also Mary Phillips as Mazie...
...Agnes Esterhazt and one Bernhard Goetzke, show a German naval commander drearily betrayed by his wife. The triangle is grafted on Jutland by connecting scenes with British extras made up as sailors but looking more like members of an amateur dramatic club in a benefit performance of Pinafore. Best shot: a British warship taking the sudden, hardly perceptible list which means that she is going to sink...
...worst more artificial than sophisticated, at its best moving to a degree, especially if the reader can read vicariously, Chéri is a novel of pre-War Paris with naturalistic approach. Its value is enhanced by ten illustrations by Herman Post, lately of Simplizissimus (Munich political-satirical weekly). In France the novel, not new, is in its 95th edition, a total respectable even in France where "editions" are smaller than...