Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chaplin case was momentous in British newspaperdom as the first divorce action to test thoroughly the new suppressive law. Was it well that Britons could not read the details of the case, or, in the words of Viscount Burnham, proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, is the law "an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities...
...dates of success in which carry on steadily to the present. Strauss is distinguished in at least four fields of music. Though his early compositions were not remarkable, he was even then known, and is still admired and feared, as peer of the greatest orchestral conductors. "He knew every instrument, and imperiously got what he wanted," said one critic. A veritable prima donna for temper, he once threatened to hurl his baton in the faces of the Weimar choir, unless their singing immediately improved. It was not surprising, then, that his second field turned out to be orchestral composition, particularly...
...below the standard of humanity, can endure to live. It will supersede the use of other means yes Military. They are afraid of Military action because the action of the Military shall be instantly and accurately component to the will of the Commander. Terror is the grand instrument. Terror can work only through assurance that evil will follow any failure of conformity between the will and action willed. Every failure must therefore be punished. Even the most minute must be visited with the heaviest in fiction, and as failure in extreme exactness must frequently happen, the occasion of cruelty must...
...instrument is, in fact, a simple promise that for the next ten years Germany and Italy will submit their mutual disputes to a mutual arbitral board, and, if that fails, to the World Court. The application of the treaty is, however, carefully restricted from interfering with the Locarno Pacts, or the League Covenant...
...alone. As the proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, I am a proprietary Crusoe stranded in a sea of syndicates. I verily believe that I am the only 'sole proprietor' of a newspaper in the whole Metropolitan area. . . . "Moreover let me say that the bill is chiefly an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities . .. yet I do not object, My Lords. It is only fair that, if the peccadillos of the lowly are covered by the tattered garment of obscurity, the indiscretions of the great should be screened...