Word: fight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Coolidge and Mr. Kellogg withdraw the Marines and let Nicaragua fight out .its difficulties, then they will be creating a new U. S. tradition...
From one source we hear that Diaz, head of the constitutional party, is the servile puppet of United States business interests. From another, he is the white hope of law and order. So also, Sacasa, liberal leader, is said to represent "the pee-pul" of Nicaragua in their fight against United States influence and to be a man of the highest integrity and sincerity. From another angle he is probably a Bolshevist agent, whose chief motive for attacking the established power is hope of graft or desire for revenge...
...press conferences, the President emphasized that these ten cruisers are merely a program, that he would approve nothing for present construction, that he does not wish to stir competitive navy building by the world powers. Thus, militant Congressmen and Navy officers are back in their original position, ready to fight for immediate appropriations for at least three cruisers...
...prospects have faded and he is afraid to take the chance. In the last six weeks he has made his desire to stay evident in a hundred ways, and nowhere more plainly than in his conferences with the correspondents. He wants it but he doesn't want to fight for it-and he won't. . . . In the whole of his political career there is no record of a fight." After listing the usual assets which President Coolidge might have in a third term campaign, Mr. Kent expanded on the negative arguments: "Should he get another [term], he will...
When such lurid posters appeared in Moscow last week, throngs rushed to trade tchervontsy for tickets. All mobs love gore, but must very generally do with out it nowadays. Therefore, the wolf fight prospectus which was distributed in Moscow last week was pawed by eager humans, blood curious, licking their chops: The Co-operative Association of Moscow Hunters will present a magnificent spectacle in which 1,000 rabbits will be chased and torn to pieces by 200 hounds. . . . Eighty foxes and an equal number of dogs will fight...