Word: gibraltarism
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...blow fell. On each adventure he was quietly and painlessly disarmed, and he learned, what some of us had suspected, that Puritanism is not a strongly marked characteristic of Toryism and that it does not do to quarrel with one's bread and butter. Drink, after all, is the Gibraltar of Toryism...
Meanwhile the third British light cruiser squadron and the fourth destroyer flotilla steamed for China from Malta. At Gibraltar a battalion of the Suffolk regiment prepared to embark for China on Jan. 2. Finally the womenfolk and children of British soldiers stationed in the interior of China were ordered last week to return to England. These measures, the War Office suavely explained, were designed to prevent a situation from arising in which His Majesty's Government might have to take military action in China to protect British lives and property...
Tangier, the chief port of Morocco, an international city at once quaint and modern, and strategically important because directly opposite the British base at Gibraltar, became once again last week the subject of contention among the nations. Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain set the pot of contention a-bubbling by despatching to Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U. S., a declaration that the control of Tangier by Spain is necessary to prevent the importation of contraband munitions by Moroccans rebellious against the regime of Spain in Spanish Morocco. The Powers to whom this declaration...
...Fraile (the friar) ; previously the sheriff had futilely searched for them in the island jungles of what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns, is known as "the stationary battleship." But experts consider Corregidor to be as impregnable as Gallipoli or Gibraltar ; its heavy armaments have longer range than the guns of any existent warship. **The Bacon Bill provides for a separate government for the southern islands (where the Moros live) and strengthens the authority of the Governor General...
...What U. S. fortress is deemed as impregnable as Gibraltar...