Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abroad, however?at Washington, London, Madrid?a notable furore was created, and the representatives of the U. S., Britain and Spain in Mexico City were instructed to employ harsh language at the Mexican Foreign Office...
...most temperate and level-headed young man. In the course of a long conversation he never gave expression to an extreme opinion. He was as calm, balanced and judicial as if his country had been a neutral in the great War and had not suffered from a harsh and difficult peace." OSCAR VON DUHN...
...menceau. "An Asiatic? At first glance he seems one . . . with his yellow skin, his saddle-nose between prominent cheekbones, and his Tartar moustache . . . a bully out of Brittany . . . an all too aged Cyrano . . . sitting by the fireside, in his peasant boots and grey suede gloves . . . uttering harsh words of scorn . . . the Prussianest of Frenchmen! . . . I could show you letters of German generals and princes who sigh: 'If only we had a German Clémenceau...
...call upon the granite-faced and granite-souled President of this justice-loving nation to mitigate or quash this harsh sentence." Congress began to consider the more important question of what should be done about aviation in the Army and Navy. It had two options: to create a single united air service for Army and Navy under a Department of National Defense, as proposed by Colonel Mitchell and as proposed by a special committee of the House of which Colonel Mitchell's lawyer, Congressman Reid, is a member; or to follow the recommendation of the President's Aircraft Board, headed...
...that any man would try to hide and excuse his own mistakes by laying them at the door of another man. . . . But both have gone before a higher Judge than man and each will receive his just dues. And I am in hopes Mr. Lodge repented his harsh views before he was called to meet his God. For otherwise I fear that his chances of happiness will be very slim. For our Saviour condemns every strife, malice, backbiting, selfishness and all manner of evil. And our late President was as free from those vices as mortal man could...