Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites are so unprincipled (and probably Bolshevik, too, by gad!) that they even repudiate Lord Balfour, and say that France is worse than Russia ! Next day in the House of Commons rash Pixie Snowden, still defiant, received a Conservative broadside. Sir Austen Chamberlain was present and rather more than close to tears. He has said frankly in the past that he loves France "as a man loves a woman." "Mr. Snowden has used a most offensive term!" cried anguished Sir Austen. "A most offensive term about...
Last week there was news of Journalist Swope. In blaring newspaper advertisements throughout the land appeared his defiant signature and photograph. His message in these advertisements was: "I light a Lucky whenever I am tempted to eat between meals. . . . The activities of a newspaper demand good physical condition. I find Lucky Strike an immeasurable aid in helping me keep trim and fit. ... Toasting makes Lucky Strike the cigarette of joy and benefit...
...eager eye squinting into the distance, searching out the red, the yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal Walt Whitman...
...Mildly defiant, the Shipping Board answered the Senate obliquely by voting (6 to 1) to accept the Chapman bid, subject to further consultation...
Surprising even himself, probably, the heretofore consistently defiant Bad Boy of Tennis paved the way for his second reinstatement by conceding the justice of his suspension in a letter to the amateur rules committee...