Word: chose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charm are gone never to be regained; for these two men, each the flower of his generation, are unique. He [Dr. Eliot] who transformed a little New England college into one of the foremost universities of the world stood alone. And so it is with Briggs, the man he chose for dean; Briggs, also, stands alone. "Who that saw the Commencement of 1900 can forget the slender, slightly bent figure that stood almost shrinking while Eliot spoke, the bowed head, the downcast eyes-and the cheers that shook the theatre? " Le Baron Russell Briggs.' A wondrous voice rang...
Herr Marx had an eye to the future. Thought he: "The Monarchists and the Republicans are evenly divided. In order to obtain some measure of Socialist support, I must have a Socialist colleague." He chose as Minister of the Interior Herr Severing, who has long acted in that capacity under ex-Minister Braun. But the ruse did not work. Last week the Diet refused a vote of confidence by 221 to 219 votes. Minister Marx became ex-Minister Marx. Prussia again lacked a government...
Indeed, the spectacle of Germanophobe France paying all-highest honor to a dead German would be rib-crackingly funny if it were not so heartrendingly serious. The French chose their unknown poilu at random and because of that very fact it has on occasion been hinted that he was a U. S. doughboy, a Senegalese rifleman. It has also been stated before that he was a German, but never proved. Suffice it to say that the decomposed body under the stone slabs of the driveway of the Arc de Triomphe is, to the minds of Frenchmen, a Frenchman...
General Castelnau, celebrated Royalist soldier, chose a bad place to make a pro-Vatican speech when he addressed a Catholic mass meeting, last week, in the Theatre des Nations at Marseilles in the south of France...
...here is a man who might have had an important administrative post at the head of a great State university and who chose instead to remain a teacher because he could see no other work more worthy of his effort. "Years ago," says Roscoe Pound, "I deliberately devoted myself to legal education, legal research, and endeavor by teaching and writing to promote the most effective administration of justice." That he says, is work which he was come to understand. It is work which he cannot now desert...