Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Execution." Mr. David Lloyd George was chosen by all the opposition parties to lead the attack upon Conservative Goliath Baldwin's Government. With well pondered malice, the fiery David twirled his verbal sling and loosed a stinging pebble: a resolution to reduce Sir Austen's salary. Quoth slinger George: "The Geneva fiasco has created a bad impression abroad . . . led to a very unpleasant discussion in the U. S. Senate [see NATIONAL AFFAIRS] . . .[and] probably antagonized the U. S. as nothing else could have done." Continuing at length but in choppy and disjointed style, Mr. George then slung...
...shall attend no more classes this day. Let wise men rush in, where this fool fears to tread. Hell holds no fury for a Dante, and at 3 o'clock in Sever 17 Professor Elton will lead his class into the nether regions. Vagabonds do not go direct, but course after course...
...first crew rowed very strongly for so early in the season, and opened up a lead of six or seven lengths over the junior combination. Watts set a smooth stroke and gave further evidence that the chances of Captain Winthrop returning to the stroke seat are not great...
...exotic metre have scarcely died away in a certain quarter of Brooklyn when the evangelical eloquence of twelve year old Uldine Utley presages a great western spiritual movement. For Uldine, according to her biographer in the American Magazine, is the California child that has moved ten thousand men to lead better lives...
...amazing current of creative thinking by the scientific groups has placed obligations on other social groups which were never placed upon them before. Science and religion are beginning to conflict, and a reestablishment is necessary which will lead to more sensible philosophy...