Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various London clubs which I note are carefully not mentioned by name. That the editor of a paper to which I have for some time subscribed should lower his magazine by allowing some member of his staff to vent his jealousy and malice on men, who, being unnamed, cannot defend themselves ... is inconceivable. If the writer of this paragraph is not a hypocrite, who is? Such sickening cant is unworthy of the attention of any sane and intelligent reader-an uncalled for affront to men of a friendly nation, which could only rouse contempt and resentment. The utter caddishness...
...claims, public works. He pointed out that the Legislature, controlled by Republicans, had only been able to lop $25,000 from his Administration figures, and had tried to add on "unnecessary" appropriations of $219,000, which he had vetoed. He anticipated a political outcry against "extravagance" by promising to defend his fiscal policies and the $16,000,000 increase anywhere, any time...
...Senate stood Alabama's Heflin to defend his allegations. "I have not any proof," he said, "but every citizen of North Carolina that I have talked to has said that we can prove...
Soon afterward, however, the wrathful telephone-women of Paris united to defend their nimbleness and honor, and hurled the counter charge that they could not make quick connections with antiquated equipment...
Peking Preparations. Twenty-three hundred foreign troops stood prepared to defend the Legation Quarter of Peking, last week, under the prospective command of the senior officer present: Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Holcomb of the U. S. Marine Corps...