Word: insists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally, both the Shipping Board and the British lines showed anxiety. The solution, however, appears to have been found. Secretary of War Weeks indicated that he would not insist on the removal of the extensions on the Chelsea piers until the city had provided other 1,000-foot piers for the British vessels. Meanwhile, it appears that the Leviathan will be leased Pier...
...however, it is much better than his later and more successful but less brilliantly written romances. Both in style and color The Sea-Hawk continues the best traditions of the historical romance written frankly for pleasure and excitement. Sabatini is not at all "the modern Dumas" as some critics insist on calling him. He doesn't write in the grand manner of the great Frenchman, but rather on the smaller, but often equally exciting scale of Stevenson and Stanley Weyman. The Sea-Hawk is accurate and picturesque in history; but it never drags or preaches or forces historical scholarship...
...other hand, no less an authority than the Baseball Magazine picks Detroit in the American League and Cincinnati in the National. Other well informed critics insist that the two St. Louis teams, who came so near the top last year, are not to be denied again. All agree, too, that Pittsburgh has a thoroughly capable outfit. And last place in both leagues has been definitely assigned to the representative of either Boston or Philadelphia...
...persuaded that an agreement is possible without sacrificing the legitimate interests ot France." He went to England in opposition to that section of French opinion who favor a peace settlement without Britain. His purpose was to tighten the slackened bonds of the Entente Cordiale, and many Paris papers insist that Premier Poincare should now follow up the course opened by M. Loucheur...
...tomorrow at Fenway Court the artistically inclined of the University could wish no more delightful companion than Sir Roger himself. He would undoubtedly insist on walking through the gardens in the role of an Italian tyrant, discoursing the while on the greatness and license of the court of the Medicis. After puffing up the stairs, admittedly the stout English gentleman again, a great Flemish tapestry room would transform him into a portly burgher. Yet the sight of an Elizabethan fireplace would make him the happiest of all. Sinking naturally into the nearest eighteenth century chair, despite signs to the contrary...