Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violation of Belgium's neutrality by the Germans in 1914, but he played an important part when he indignantly protested against Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's assertion that the Belgian Treaty of Neutrality was "a scrap of paper," and when he asserted stingingly that Britain would defend Belgium because she had contracted...
...Emperor, who trusted to forged letters, the work of onvy, "the harlot, who ne'er turned her gloating eyes from Caesar's household," he dashed, his head against a wall, according to his legend. Dante finds him in the Harpy-haunted Wood of suicides and lets him defend his honor and good faith...
When Ramsay MacDonald desires to know the worst, he will read both papers, and being an intellectual liberal, will remember Voltaire's phrase: "I wholly disapprove of what you say, and will defend to the death your right...
...Miss Lou Henry, of Monterey, Calif., went through Leland Stanford, Jr., University at the same time Herbert Hoover did. He became a mining engineer, and she, as his wife, went with him everywhere. Together they helped defend Tientsin in 1900 (Boxer Rebellion), living for six weeks behind a barricade of sugar barrels and rice bags. Though in constant danger, she enjoyed the sugar-ever at hand for tea. Once she read her own obituary in a Peking newspaper. Said she: "There were three columns of it, too! I was never so proud." She excelled in geology while at college...
This is the second successive year that Gardner will have captained the American amateurs who are to defend the Walker Golf trophy against the invading British...