Word: crushingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reich Dictator. The setting up of a Dictator with wide powers to crush revolt is undoubtedly a protectionist policy. The rise of a Dictator in Germany was expected and was only a corollary of successive failures on the part of various Governments to deal with a complex internal situation aggravated by still more complex foreign relations and obligations. The political currents flowing against the sides of the Government barge were strong and numerous. There were the Monarchists, whose ranks were split by the Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach factions; the Communists, whose opposition to the Government was equal to that...
...Parliament). Red chiefs were arrested and imprisoned, except in cases where they had succeeded in crossing the frontier of France or Portugal. All the civil governors were dismissed. Don Luis Silvela, Spanish High Commissioner for Morocco, was replaced by General Aizpuru Mondejas, who was endowed with " full powers to crush Abdel Krim and retrieve the honor of the Spanish Army." Meanwhile Spain is to be governed by an oligarchy of virtual despots until such a time as "another better Cortes which will represent the people's will" can be convened. An election is to be held in the future...
Speaking of the visits of Monarchists on steam yachts at Wieringen (present headquarters of the ex-crown Prince), he said: "What these gentlemen spoke of I cannot say. In any event it must have been an awful crush in the vicarage where the Crown Prince lives, if a few hundred ladies and gentlemen all crowded into the small house to conspire...
...modern scientism concerning: creation of the universe, Adam and Eve, birth of Jesus, His second coming to raise the dead and other theological questions. Bishop Brown's book denies nearly every cardinal doctrine of the Christian faith. Bishop Gailor declares that "it would be as easy to crush the heretical representations of Communism and Christianism as to smash a fly with a sledge-hammer." The Right Rev. Alexander C. Garrett, the new Presiding Bishop of the House, has called a special meeting in Dallas this Fall. At this meeting the Bishop Brown issue will be thrashed...
...goes but also forming part of "the Lawrie Saga"- a literary sextet the composition of which has occupied Mr. Cannan's attention for the last ten years or more. The depressing environment of Thrigsby-a dingy manufacturing town-and a certain ingrown Puritanical stodginess of character combine to crush the Lawries and their connections under the weight of their own respectability. Some try to escape-James Lawrie via unintelligible humor and the pothouse-Annette, his daughter-in-law, by having quantities of children- Stephen, his youthful grandson, by retiring into his own entirely unchildish mind. The struggles of these...