Word: intentional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served on Colonel Mitchell last week, accusing him of "conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline," making "a statement insubordinate to the administration of the War Department," making a "statement highly contemptuous and disrespectful'' to the War Department and to the Navy Department "with intent to discredit the same...
...combination of cleverness and good fortune. He put up his wife to run for Governor. She ran second in the first Democratic primary. In the second Democratic primary Texas had the choice between her and the man who ran first?who was supported by the Ku Klux Klan. Texas, intent on repudiating the Klan, chose Mrs. Ferguson to be the Democratic nominee for Governor. In the election she beat the Republican nominee 1) because she was a Democrat, and 2) because she was anti-Klan. Last January she was inaugurated with a great ball (TIME, Feb. 2, WOMEN) and promptly...
Apparently, the cry of wolf has been raised too often, however. Europe is more intent upon carrying out the terms of the Locarno treaties than in mixing up in the latest Balkan row, and the American press pursues the even tenor of its ways. Nowadays murders, assassinations and ultimate flying back and forth among the hot tempered members of the Balkan family remind one more of a mock-heroic farce or a travesty on the art of war, than a serious disturbance...
...whirred along he fashioned phrases which he hoped would make the might of Russia felt in Poland. Descending from his train at Warsaw, he found Premier Wladyslaw Grabski and indeed the whole city seemingly intent upon nothing but his honor...
Banquet followed banquet. So many Poles rushed to make him welcome that diplomatic conversation was all but impossible. It was apparent that the Poles were intent upon drowning awkward questions about security pacts in toasts to their guest's health...