Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victor Emmanuel: "With a feeling of satisfaction at the connection of one of my own countrymen with the exploit, I desire to offer to Your Majesty my congratulations on the important participation in the Amundsen expedition to the North Pole by an Italian airship and the son of Italy who piloted it. To Commander Nobile's scientific skill is doubtless due, in large measure, the success of this hazardous and historic undertaking...
...Your Majesty and people of Norway my congratulations on the success which attended the bold undertaking of this hardy and intrepid descendant of the Vikings. It is a matter of great satisfaction that one of my countrymen should have been associated with him in this daring and courageous exploit...
...data available leads to an obvious conclusion. America is wealthy, powerful, and politically-minded. She holds a strategic position in the economic world and possesses enough political ability to exploit it. And her journalists respond with unpremeditated "hurrahs". While the rope of sand holds, this new "Condescension in Americans" will retain its still plebeian savoir faire...
...keep it a secret when she posed for Engraver George Morgan and let him affix her profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the U.S. Mint at Philadelphia in 1878. In 1880 a newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge girls' school. She later taught kindergarten philosophy at a normal school, not retiring until 1924. Not only did she take...
While the Right Deputies thus foamed, M. Briand did some quick thinking. Making up his mind, he deliberately goaded them on: "What lies are these! What calumnies! You are seeking still to exploit the War atmosphere of hate and anger! You will not admit your lies are lies because you are politicians...