Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the fanatically brave, nomadic Druses of Syria were waging guerrilla rebellion against the French (1922-27) it was several times stated by correspondents that the French commanders from General Maurice Sarrail down were wantonly cruel in suppressing the rebellion, and, in some cases, incompetent. Naturally the French Government could take only one attitude toward such charges at the time, flat denial; but last week War Minister Paul Painleve said before the Senate Military Committee in answer to a question: "I cannot deny that the War Ministry holds General Michaud sufficiently responsible for the wiping out of the column under...
Last week in Manhattan, a dubious audience strained expectant ears, saw musical instruments, were invited to hear musical tones, which most of them had never dreamed existed. On the stage of Carnegie Hall, Leopold Stokowski, able conductor, master of the unexpected, stood in command before the Philadelphia Orchestra, presented Julian Carillo's† "System of the 13th Sound." Concertgoers, bred in a world where the finest division of music is the halftone, in which the chromatic scale has a total of twelve tones to the octave, heard, or tried to hear, quarter-tones, eighth-tones, three-quarter-tones...
...safeguard the morals of the rising generations, a state of affairs on which we of today may look in surprise, when we consider that we allow our national, state, and city governments keep the world clean and safe to live in. This tendency is shown in the stern command which was written of in this account of "the progress of learning in the College of Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay" to the effect that "none shall, under any pretence whatsoever, frequent the company and society of such men as lead an unfit and dissolute life...
...sorrow that lies in the crushed hearts of hundreds of mothers and fathers. However, if Mr. Hollister cares to know what the writer thinks of him and his letter, apart from his subject, I am at his service with all the disgust and scurrility I am able to command. G. Louis Joughin, '27. 6 Hollis Hall...
Along the Chinese battlefront west of Shanghai all was suspiciously quiet last week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave...