Word: defenselessness
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...voice and the gestures of a king; words, cadences, images, poured from him like an endless golden cable unwinding from his mouth; when he addressed a jury he could make the twelve spellbound dolts do whatever he told them, and he often used his genius for the weak, the defenseless, the depraved. After his Convention speech, he could have held political office; men in the Administration asked him politely would he like to be Minister to Germany ? Attorney General? Would he, sometime, care to run for President? Said he: "I do not believe in your God. . . . I do not wish...
Against gunpowder, what chance has the poor pard, the feeble tiger, the defenseless lion? Lords once of the jungle, they are driven ever back into their forests, away from the soft fat flesh of the deer. But go where they will, gunpowder follows relentlessly until, at last, cornered, they turn, crouch, roar terribly, and leap-into bullets of death-dealing steel. Is this justice, is this sportmanship...
...chauvinist and the jingo. Everyone agrees that America should have an army adequate for police protection; that is, everyone but the military man. This unfortunate looks at everything through a red haze, and all he sees is an infinity of armed nations about to spring upon a defenseless America. The United States is not at present threatened with war with any formidable nation, nor is it likely to be for some time...
Discussion was adjourned. The Treaty is distasteful* to all parties. The Straits Convention, an annex to the Treaty, leaves Constantinople defenseless. The two powers most interested are Russia and Great Britain. Defense of minorities in Turkey will probably occupy the attention of the House in any further debate...
...also in Bulgaria are the victims of Bolshevik enterprises exerted under orders from Moscow. It is amazing that this third internationale, as Mr. Hughes points out, should employ in great, rich, powerful America the same impudent methods which it employs in weak defenseless Bulgaria. Mr. Hughes' denunciation of Soviet methods deserves the gratitude of Bulgaria...