Word: brink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dread, slow-spreading famine in Shantung and adjoining provinces (TIME, Feb. 6) had pushed 150,000 Chinese to the brink of Death, last week, put 300,000 into a condition of "agonizing starvation," and rendered 1,000,000 stomachs light if not quite empty...
...oration to start things going. This orator must choose a subject upon which the convention holds a unanimous opinion. A "keynote" speech, therefore, is by definition a solemn prating about undisputed things. The more vague or remote the subject upon which the audience agrees, the nearer to the brink of absurdity will the orator totter in his effort to be impressive. So it was with Keynoter Fess at Kansas City, who sounded crass and flatulent on the vague topic of Republican Prosperity. And so it was at Houston with Keynoter Bowers, who combined pedantry with abuse on Republican Corruption...
Frankness pushed to the brink of indiscretion characterized, last week, an address delivered in London by the Honorable Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab, Mahara-jadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan.** Said his Highness: "It is no use shutting our eyes to the fact that there is in India today a volume of opinion, small, perhaps, but yet not negligible, and which is growing every day not only in strength but intensely, which desires to get rid of British rule at all costs...
...brink of a quandary, the G.O.P.'s Committee on Arrangements met in Kansas City last week. Besides deciding where the Negro delegates were to be lodged and what "stunts" the parade should perform and how the convention hall should be decorated, they had a delicate question to answer. What Republican, they had to ask themselves, was best qualified to be Temporary Chairman in June? The traditional, and the sole function of a Temporary Chairman is to make a keynote speech which shall put all factions in a happy frame of mind, inspire the country and prelude Victory...
...attitude famed Winston Churchill, now Chancellor of the Exchequer, has written: "On questions which, in his view, involved the safety of the British armies under his command, Sir Douglas Haig-right or wrong-was, whenever necessary, ready to resign." Not until all armies neared the brink of exhaustion was the thrift of Haig vindicated by the might of his at last forged and case hardened troops. If Scotch in husbandry, he was Scotch in fortitude, in personal valor. Rang in his ears an ancestral catch: "What e're betide, what e're betide, Haig shall be Haig...