Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...democratic chiefs, both of whom have been called "Fascists" by Communists, decided to defend their countries last week...
...collected by Dorothy Thompson at his disposal, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, already an object of world sympathy, last week found his Paris jail cell a mecca for top-flight criminal lawyers. The Corsican showman of the Paris bar, Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, boomed: "I have agreed to defend this youth on international and humane grounds!" The no less great Maitre Henry Torres and six other Maitres joined up to make a defense team of eight...
...fifth inter-House debate will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Kirkland Junior Common Room at which time the Lowell team will defend the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, That the United States should substantially (by one-third at least) extend the quota on German Refugees" against their Kirkland opponents...
...does the Corporation's rejection of responsibility detract from its recognition of the need for America to demonstrate tolerance for those being persecuted abroad. It has in effect applauded the humanitarian ideal of the Undergraduate Committee, and this must be remembered when in the future the occasion arises to defend Harvard liberalism. The number of the scholarships appears to be sensible; it approves assistance without basing assistance on an impractical and overemotional scheme; it condemns the Nazis with caution. Moreover, it points the course for other colleges in this country to pursue. For a widespread assertion of our faith...
...write of it with the majestic smugness that has made Gibbon an unsurpassed soporific for 150 years. The barbarians were really pretty tough. The emperors whom Gibbon dismissed as weaklings were really doing their best; the barbarian generals were smart men-besides, Rome was a hard city to defend. So in Robert Graves's books Rome falls with a sigh rather than with the sonorous crash that Gibbon heard, falls slowly, painfully, wearily, hopelessly, unaware to the last that she is falling...