Word: commandingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer our strength, our devotion, and whatever practical spiritual forces we have at our command...
Germany. Berliners caroling "Go pinch the bullfrog's tail!" continue to find this command an expressive equivalent for "Tell it to the Marines...
...picturesque idleness on the western shore of the Black Sea, not far from the Danube's mouth, lies Constanta, Roumania's only port. In the casino there can often be seen half a dozen gilded Roumanian admirals who command scarce so many ships...
...this activity finds but a short three hour culmination. For the interval between a leisurely breakfast and a prompt, luncheon, the student is something of an authority on his subject. He is able for one whole morning to command a set of facts with a reasonable precision. And if the instructor selected the questions shrewdly, the student may even be forced to some constructive thinking. Too often, however, the net result of the three hour ordeal is a series of ill-assorted facts set forth in hastily garbled English...
Mind reading, while less spectacular, is perhaps the most interesting feature. Simply by touching the hand of any member of the audience the fakir reads and obeys his silent command for any convenient task he can complete within the theatre. He will find, for example, a certain word in a certain book designated mentally by the subject. Thus far Rahman Bey has not been invited to any poker games...