Word: manifeste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clarence Darrow, dead these eight years, failed for the eighth time to keep an annual appointment. He had promised amateur magician Claude Noble to "manifest himself" if he could. Noble stood on a Chicago bridge from which Barrow's ashes had been scattered, held up a picture, waited for Darrow to knock it out of his hand...
Having fulfilled the nation's new "manifest destiny," in 1899 ships of the U.S. Fleet sailed in triumph into New York Harbor. Cuba had been liberated; the Philippines had been seized. The U.S. had ended its isolation from the world and become a great naval power. Thanks were due to Admiral George Dewey-in whose honor New York City decorated its buildings and declared a two-day holiday-and to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt of the Rough Riders, who had fought horse, foot and dragoon (as prewar Assistant Secretary) to modernize the Navy and make...
Nineteen years later, on a foul winter's day, New York Harbor became the scene of another celebration, when the battleships of the Atlantic Fleet returned, their manifest destiny also fulfilled. The world had been made safe for democracy (folks said) and Woodrow Wilson was off for the Versailles Conference...
...power and our influence. . . ." George Marshall translated this into practical, military terms: "The only effective defense a nation can now maintain is the power of attack." Navymen put it this way: "Our mission is to wage the peace around the world." Not even Theodore Roosevelt had suggested such a manifest destiny. It was a reversal of the traditional U.S. policy -never to attack until attacked - which culminated in the Pearl Harbor disaster and the destruction of Douglas MacArthur's army and air force in the Philippines. It implied a nation ever on the alert, ready to strike before...
...quarrel with the old-style comic like Mr. & Mrs., The Gumps, Gasoline Alley, and he seems to have a sneak ing admiration for Li'l Abner ("sexy and synthetic pastoralism" done with "manifest cleverness.") But, he says, "there seems to be nothing in the good comics which keeps readers from liking the others." He saves his sharpest slings for Superman's female counterpart, a four-year-old character named Wonder Woman, who is described by her creator as "the girl from Paradise Isle, beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, stronger than Hercules and swifter than Mercury." Wonder Woman...