Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failed to foresee what is now happening? Why did we not halt under the shells and convoke a board meeting of profiteers to decide the question whether it would allow us to continue in defense of the greatest conquest in history? Must the myth of German reparations lead up to American cash collections...
Henry Ford took up flying 15 months ago. Last week his son, Edsel, called on President Coolidge in the Adirondacks, laden with photographs and sheets of statistics, to report what progress the emperor of the highways had made in his conquest of the air. First of all, Edsel Ford explained the ship† that is to be standardized and produced, en masse, at Detroit. No air "jitney," it is a large ship, designed for commercial uses. It is an all-metal monoplane with three Wright-Whirlwind motors. It can carry a ton of freight, operating at a cost...
...Veni, vidi, vici," has been supposed by wags to have been originally uttered not anent the conquest of Gaul, but on the occasion of one of his innumerable youthful female conquests...
...columns long, which read in part: "Rudyard Kipling is dead. The herald of the right and might of empire lies silent amid the weald and the marsh and the down country of Sussex. England has lost the recorder of the glories that were hers in the day of conquest. The world has lost a singer." Amid the "weald" of Sussex, Mr. Kipling remained alive, did not sing...
...smoking jacket should clinch the victory. If pioneer wives were willing to smoke corncobs an the chimney, surely their descend-ants can not be averse to a more civilized form of fumigation. Since the cigarette unsupported is achieving womanly progress, one can expect an artistic pipe to make the conquest heartily complete...