Word: compacter
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...sightseers know that tong means "Parlor." The implication of the word is a genial one, implying conversation, compromise, good cheer. Tongs were originally started as protective trade organizations. They became, by degrees, political bodies?compact, powerful, antagonistic. Thus was the word perverted. Now, when that word appears in print, it clangs like a terrible bronze bell summoning unseen hordes to war, sounding the knell of many pathetic, dingy little men who will die by violence, in secret places...
...conversations proceeded that afternoon until about 6 o'clock. At the Hyde Park Hotel, M. Briand was besieged by clamorous reporters. To them he said: "The French and British viewpoints regarding the security compact have come materially closer together as a result of today's conversations. I believe-no, you may say I am confident-that one more meeting tomorrow will suffice for us to arrive at an agreement on the wording of the reply to Germany...
...delicacy, wit and penetration. From his interest in Shelley, one would also have guessed that M. Maurois accepts the latter half of Plato's apothegm: "There are two kinds of causes; one necessary, the other divine," and agrees with Vauvenargues: "Genius depends largely on our passions." The three compact dialogs of the present volume, between a young platonist-aristocrat lieutenant and his old rationalist-radical tutor, run widely and vigorously over the pros" and cons of the proposition: A leader of men is born, not made...
...Lancet. Outside a London newspaper office a crowd gathered last week, at first no more than a small, compact impediment in the current of the Strand's foot passengers, but swelling minute by minute until it bulged, a black protuberance, pulsing with a low, incessant fever and disordering the normal life of the street. Nobody jostled. Men and women stood silent, taken with the sick prescience that infects crowds in the apprehension of some great event -a declaration of war, the birth of a prince...
...Brookline. Little men have the name of being compact with greater en- durance than big men. It is not always the case. Last week Gerald L. Patterson of Australia, a tall and sturdy fellow whose white flannels are better tailored, whose blazer is gaudier, than those of any other gentleman in tennis, indulged in an endurance test with wiry Takeichi Harada of Japan, discomfited him, 5-7, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, to win the Longwood Bowl...