Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with no other turpitudinous soul on hand for the press to play with this colonel must face the inquisition, mother can point to the Marine post. And in some rustic hamlet some fonders and say to her son--"My boy, join the Marines and keep your morale clean." And in the vigor of his hypocrisy some preacher can halo another saint. For America in the glory of legalized morality has forgotten the spiritual depths as well as the heights which must be the experience of man. The rigors of reality cannot exist--they must be diluted by the discretion...
...disappointed. And as if matters were not sufficiently complicated, political intrigue adds to the difficulty of the problem. In order to counteract German influence. France leans to Spain and Italy to Poland. Meanwhile Germany, chafing at the delay in obtaining the coveted seat, sends word that she will not join the League at all, if nations not concerned in the Locarno treaty, are to be admitted to the council on equal terms with...
...clear enough that the result they want is better crop prices. The other issue is an anti-lynching bill. If this bill comes up in the Senate, the Southerners will undertake a filibuster, an attempt may be made to supply cloture (limit the debate), and the irreconcilables may join the regular Republicans in the cloture move in order to get revenge on the Southerners who helped to impose cloture on the World Court. In that event a first-class parliamentary wrangle may ensue, but it is hard to see how as an issue anything might come of it except...
...French Chamber of Deputies has overturned another cabinet and sent one more prime minister to join the vast army of the unemployed premiers. For the ninth time in his long Parliamentary career. Aristide Briand has gone down before an unfavorable vote and turned his job over to a luckless successor...
...portraits of Zuloaga. Mezquita discards the landscape background and the black lace mantilla, however, in many of his pictures in favor of a more traditional treatment. The subject of one of these, called Paquita by the painter, would be enough to make this vagabond settle down and join the Rotary Club...