Word: credo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Credo of Gretchaninov and a polonaise from "Le Roi Malgre Lui" by Chabrier are attractions rarely heard in Boston...
Churchill. Following ex-Premier Herbert H. Asquith's blunt excoriation of the Anglo-Russian Treaty as "a crude experiment in nursery diplomacy," Winston Churchill, brilliant factotum to Governments, whose political credo now transcends mere party politics (he seceded from the Liberals and is denied membership with the Conservatives), presented a clear picture of the predominant issue of the generally envisaged general elections. Said he, speaking at Edinburgh...
Quite naturally the men who are to direct the destinies of France were in the optic field of the concentrated eyes of the eame element that awaited the citation of the Government's credo. President Doumergue, who hails from the Midi (Southern France), found time to say that he was a bullfighting fan; he therefore becomes the bullfighting President. Corpulent Premier Herriot, who is fond of a pipe, sought momentary relaxation in a Bohemian cafe where he was found eating sauerkraut-a happy augury for better Franco-German relations-and he therefore became "the corpulent, pipe-puffing, kraut-eating...
Finally, after attacking Cardinal Faulhaber, the General gave his monarchical credo...
...another of these figures, all too few, who add both humanity and distinction to the American literary scene -and who add wholesomeness mixed with a sense of humor, to the American Credo...