Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oath of office. If, with one hand on the Bible and the other hand reaching up to Heaven, I promise the people of this country that 'I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, you may be sure that I shall live up to that oath to the last degree...
...sense whatsoever constitute any reason whatsoever for the curtailment of U. S. arms in any degree or respect whatsoever. U. S. soldiers, sailors, marines, guns, battleships, mules, rifles, submarines, forts, gas, are purely defensive. The Kellogg treaty in no way invades a nation's right to defend itself or to prepare to defend itself as much as it may please. "Big Navy" men were relieved. British newspapers expressed more hotly than ever their belief that the treaty was conceived in partisan politics and baptised with U. S. hypocrisy. ¶Mrs. Coolidge shopped in Superior for a pair of bedroom...
...made almost hourly suggestions, such as a return debate in St. Patrick's Cathedral, a continuation of the debate in a dozen southern cities, and that the largest Manhattan auditorium be selected in preference to Calvary Church. The Governor would have none of these. He desired merely to defend his reputation as a (sexually) right-thinking man before the congregation before which he believed he had been slandered by innuendo...
...From that incident was born my desire to quit the ring-forever, the first opportunity that presented itself. I wanted to defend my title. I wanted to make enough money, but most of all I wanted to leave the game that had threatened my sanity before I met with an accident in a real fight with six-ounce gloves that would permanently hurt my brain...
...attract a passing ship to help him loot the village. Then he repents, but dastardly Pearl Trader Sebastian has seen the beacon. Sebastian and his crew ravage the island, leaving behind them the white men's shadows-lust, liquor, disease, greed. Dr. Lloyd is killed while trying to defend his race...