Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assertive individualists who could agree on many things; and in one strong-minded man's appreciation of another's "beautiful thinking machine." Also, Mr. Bok, with a self-educated man's capacity for admiring education in others, never ceased to marvel at Mr. Wilson's command of language, including slang. He even asked Mr. Wilson once how he came by his facile diction, and the then president of Princeton is said to have explained: "From my father. He had a reverence for words, and he would never allow us to misuse a word. Not only would...
...duties were easily and responsibly transferred to Dr. Reid Blair, a Philadelphia-born veterinarian with a McGill University training and a splendid War record as chief "vet" with the Fourth Army Corps, who has been Dr. Hornaday's second-in-command these four years. But the Hornaday personality and reputation are not to be duplicated in every generation...
...based their arguments on modern facial trends alone. They have gone back to ancient times, citing the examples of the great military men of the old world and the new, Alexander of Macedon, Scipio Africanus, General Ambrose E. Burnside. They have pointed out that "when Alexander first took command of the Macedonian army he gave his soldiers the once-over and ordered them to cut off their whiskers lest the beard afford a handle to the enemy." They have quoted Pliny: "The younger Africanus was the first who adopted the habit of shaving every day." Of General Burnside they said...
...probably thinks ancient Greece can be removed by dry cleaning anyway. But many is the row boat would put to sea to see ankles like hers. The producers of "That's My Baby" knew that too well. They counted the row boats and called for Douglas MacLean to take command. But ankles are after all, especially Miss Morris' very slender supports for a feature film. Aud thus cometh comedy in the guise of a child who attaches himself to Douglas on land, on sea, on foam, and makes comedy stalk beside the ankles...
...Witos Cabinet, rushed without warning upon his house, surrounded it, called to Pilsudski to come out and be thrashed. Thick-witted, they had not cut his telephone wire. With a lion's leap the Marshal seized the instrument, shouted the number of the nearest army barracks, bellowed a command to the astonished officer who answered. True Poles, every soldier in the barracks seized his gun, rushed frenziedly to the rescue of the man who symbolizes Polish freedom - whatever his extragavances of temperament and despite the fact that the Germans captured and imprisoned him (1914-18) while other Poles wrought...