Word: commandered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dewey. Surely, it was a modest, a natural, a lovable, a well-pre-pared man who uttered the command : "You may fire when ready, Gridley." For seven days, the U. S. waited for authentic news of this man's victory. For 16 months, the U. S. waited for its idol to come home and receive in person his righteous adulation. Some say that his welcome was the beginning of the spectacle era in the U. S.a wood and plaster triumphal arch in Manhattan (reputed to be "a labor of love"), massed flag waving and horn blowing, loving cups, a sword...
...reason as to why I should embrace a deity which offers no evidence of existence ? If I should place my faith in this deity, why wouldn't it be just as logical to place my faith in Santa Claus as well? In fact the latter gentleman ought to command more respect, as he at least shows some signs of life when Christmas gets around. In that respect the children show more signs of intelligence than their elders. They believe in St. Nick and at least have something to show for their beliefs, while what can their elders show...
...excluded as "improperly dressed," because he was wearing only ordinary evening clothes, adorned simply with the orders of the Legion of Honor and the Bath. That was not enough. The invitations, by Royal command, called for the full dress uniform to which Lord Byng is entitled by his rank ?a uniform resplendent with scarlet and gold. . . . Court etiquette makes no exceptions. The baron cooled his heels without, while Lady Byng, "properly dressed," dined...
...Isolt, and of her recapture by King Mark, and Mark's defeat by her pale steadfastness, and Tristram's last visit to her, when they are slain by crawling Andred without Mark's command, so that the world is emptied for everyone, bringing the tragic peace that Isolt the darker had predicted ? enough is told to trouble the reader greatly though the sense sometimes becomes so rarefied that one welcomes the voice of King Howel, kind father of Isolt the whiter, saying: "You are not going on always with a ghost for company until...
...gilded mirrors that reach to the ceiling. His hair is not cut short like most boys'. His eyes are so brightly black one wonders at the Gallo family's assurance of his recovery from recent illness. He raps for attention quite oblivious of the incongruity of his command. Some of the musicians follow his baton with flashes of pride, for they too are Gallos, and this Gallo boy is the world's young est conductor. On May 14, he will give a public performance in the Engineering Society Auditorium in Manhattan. Few composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers...