Word: havoc
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Premier Poincare of France, however, seems determined to stay in the Ruhr until such time as Germany starts to make reparation payments. Even then France will only withdraw progressively as payments are received. In two speeches Premier Poincare laid stress on the havoc and wanton destruction wrought in France by the Germans during the War. In no sense can either of these speeches be regarded as a preface to a French reply to the latest British note, although M. Poincare was aware of the contents of the note at the time of making his speeches. He did, however, make...
...Edgar said: " Beyond Dawo we began to get startling confirmation of the havoc wrought by a mighty force from the bowels of the earth. At one village we found that every house had been leveled to the earth and quite half of the inhabitants killed...
Even in the South of England several degrees of frost have been frequently registered, " playing havoc with garden and fruit crops." Each night cold Britishers huddle around huge fires and sigh for Summer...
...proper diameter, would be promptly repudiated in a country so well instructed by comic sections. Where Swiss cheeses are unfailingly represented with holes for their identification, just as a tail differentiates man and monkey in the same school of Art. The disclosure of this difficulty will, of course, play havoc with the popular idea that the holes depend upon gangs of Swiss maidens who construct them with their teeth as well as the rival theory that the marksman ship of the Swiss fleet is responsible for the regularity of the pattern...
...strain of sadness, Mr. O'Brien's new book is a delightfully readable book overflowing with the joy of living. The author went to Tahitit to play--not to make scientific investigations or profound deducts on the benefits and evils of our civilization. He cannot help noting the terrible havoc which has been wrought through all Ocean, but he does not let this hang too heavily upon...