Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loves To Fight Storms...
...chief love is the sea, but only in sailing ships. He hates steamers. "I love to fight the storm," he continued, "and I love my boat. I am going back to it in a few days; I'm not at home on land. Sailors are the greatest fraternity, and the sailors of wind-jammers are the aristocrats of the bunch. I've been six times around the world, and sailing men are the same all over...
...addition to the renunciation of aggression between Germany and France, there is the English guarantee. Are the pledged word and power of England nothing to those who in France demand stronger security? Do they doubt the ability of England together with France, to fight Germany's present-day army? "It is illogical to have a Locarno treaty and at the same time see the Rhineland occupied. The Locarno agreement was meant to be the beginning, not the end, of the new era of conciliation." Briand (apostrophizing Stresemann with blazing frankness): "Locarno gives us all the security on the Rhine...
...about the eye were among the reasons offered. Skeptics of the press, long used to sound and fury meaning nothing but publicity, pointed out wearily that Dempsey would not be through with the ring until the public unmistakably gave evidence of unwillingness to pay to see him fight...
Last week it became known that Harvard anthropologists were cooperating with the Pathe Exchange, Inc., in making educational movies of the monkeys. From Havana came Anthropologist Frederick Hulse, with Pathe Cameraman Miller, bringing 3,000 feet of film, picturing fiery orangutans who showed fight when the camera clicked, other monkeys that showed fear, others that were friendly...