Word: combat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is, however, another side to the question. Mencken has got imitators. Why, Mencken himself has to combat that very problem in men writing for the the Mercury, who believe in the precept that imitation is sincerest flattery...
Honorable Great Queen. Meanwhile, as the week advanced, the holy Ichans (Priests) successfully rallied the faithful to combat feminism. They remembered not the benevolent attitude toward women-kind of Tamburlaine the Great. He, magnanimous, referred to his chief wife as "The Honorable Great Lady." When she entered a state apartment 15 ladies-in-waiting held up the perimeter of her enormous skirt of silk and cloth of gold to enable her to walk. Three more attendants steadied by silken cords her towering headdress, which began with a wealth of black hair, rose like an immense extinguisher bestudded with gems...
...jousts. Tennis followers recalled the last appearance of Teuton forces in the court classic, when, late in July, 1914, the German delegation concluding their match with the victorious Australasians a few hours before the declaration of War; rushed overseas to join their Kaiser's colors in more deadly combat...
...argumentation sections in English A, have greatly revived the interest in debating and, at intervals to be decided later, the dormitory teams will test their eloquence. Tentative trips to Exeter and Andover have been arranged and the club will have plenty of opportunity to combat outside teams...
...Down with War!" chanted the Communists, drubbing and banging on their desks. They were particularly incensed at a clause which would make every man, woman and child in France liable to be drafted for combat or work behind the lines. "This bill proposes," cried a Communist, "nothing less than to make the French war-time slaves to French capital...