Word: goliath
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After all, who did kill Goliath? Elmer Davis, letting his imagination zoom, said in his novel Giant Killer that it was not David, but his sturdy nephew Joab. Stumbling on the huge carcass, David made bold to slice off the head and stagger back with it to camp, claiming a victory that...
Elmer Davis, on the other hand, is sufficiently master of the art of human speech to reconstruct the converse of garrulous though ancient Hebrews. It seems that David didn't kill the giant after all. Coming by lucky chance upon dead Goliath, he was clever enough to cut off the giant's head, and claim a superhuman victory. His whole career glittered with similar shrewd opportunism, alternating with cowardly lapses which the loyal Joab covered. Joab did all the killing, David got all the credit...
Cried Liberalism's David at the Tory Goliath: "This Anglo-French agreement is a renewal of the old policy of military arrangements which precipitated the World War. It is designed not to limit armaments but to increase them. It means more submarines for France and more cruisers for ourselves. It also means that France is to maintain hereafter a great force of trained reserves which will be a far mighter army than she had before the War. By this compromise we have antagonized two great friendly powers, Italy and the United States...
Next afternoon the English Channel was strewn with fog and a wrack of rain. Approaching Romney Marsh on the shore of Kent, a big new Farman Goliath passenger plane, belonging to the French Air Union, sent chills through its 13 passengers by groping low for its bearings, faltering as with engine trouble. Steering over the marsh toward the village of Hurst, the pilot struggled with his controls. A barn roof loomed underneath. The world tipped crazily, spinning around. Crash! A haystack flew at the shrieking passengers, then another, then the cabin crushed in upon them, everything upside down in pain...
...Execution." Mr. David Lloyd George was chosen by all the opposition parties to lead the attack upon Conservative Goliath Baldwin's Government. With well pondered malice, the fiery David twirled his verbal sling and loosed a stinging pebble: a resolution to reduce Sir Austen's salary. Quoth slinger George: "The Geneva fiasco has created a bad impression abroad . . . led to a very unpleasant discussion in the U. S. Senate [see NATIONAL AFFAIRS] . . .[and] probably antagonized the U. S. as nothing else could have done." Continuing at length but in choppy and disjointed style, Mr. George then slung...