Word: grips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centaur Nessus is galloping through a stream with Deianira on his back. He is holding with both hands the frightened woman, whose transparent white garments flutter in the wind. She is wrestling to get free from the grip of the centaur. To the right on the shore stands Hercules, stretching his bow ready to send an arrwo into the centaur. He is a nude athlete with intense 'tactile value,' the whole figure having the tension of a steel spring strained to the limit. The very extensive landscape which is dominated by the winding river, represents a view of the Arno...
Despite the sticking plaster, his right eye still clamped with a firm grip his internationally famed monocle. As he entrained at London the Foreign Secretary's left arm clamped with equal firmness a copy of British Foreign Secretaries, a study of eleven statesmen from...
News dispatches yesterday from Cairo, Bucharest, and Belgrade contain enlightening sidelights upon this undiminished war of empires. England, rather free with promises, about Egyptian independence during the war, is once more closing fast her grip on the country of the Nile. She claims special interest, and intends to enforce it, in the Egyptian army and frontiers. Egypt's hesitation about acceding to this demand will avail her nothing. More logically than ever Egypt is an essential link in Britain's Empire. Not only the Suez and the sea passage to India, but the protectorates in Traz and Palestine, the virtual...
...onetime Sergeant Stimson crosses another stream at the invitation of another U. S. President. This time it is the Gulf Stream, for last week Mr. Stimson packed his grip and left Manhattan for Nicaragua, where he travels as special representative of President Coolidge. He may interview among others Revolutionary Leader Sacasa; after a month will return to make reports, recommendations. Republicans hope that, through his intervention, the marines may be withdrawn from Nicaragua before their presence can be made an issue in the 1928 presidential campaign...
Among other things, Mr. Ford is a Hebrew-phobe. He employs no Jews in his mighty industries; he resents the grip that they have on certain U. S. businesses. And so it was natural that one of the early functions of the Dearborn Independent was to annoy the Semitic. In 1924 and 1925, 20 articles written by Newspaperman Harry Dunn, under the pseudonym Robert Morgan, appeared on the subject: "Jewish Exploitation of Farmers' Organizations." The first article said flatly: "A band of Jew bankers, lawyers, advertising agencies, fruit packers, produce buyers, professional office managers and bookkeeping experts...