Word: martially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life of the intimate colyumist must be a hard one. All the little idiosyncracies which make him delightful must be expended, paraded, with none of the fine brave martial music which excuses so must exhibitionism. His is no uniform but motley, and the whole Cambridge store of that is down Plympton Street, at the corner of Mount Auburn. And now Lampy, not satisfied with being thought bats in his belfry, has belled his belfry. It's like belling the cat, to keep him from nodding off to sleep, no doubt. And so all the caps and bells...
...situation when the famed gentleman, Paris, who later alienated the affections of Menelaus' wife, was made to choose among three ladies, Hera, Athene and Aphrodite, was last week reversed: Pennsylvania had her choice of three gentlemen. As the three ladies respectively made Paris an offering of power, of martial glory and of the fairest woman on earth, so the three gentlemen each made an offer. Mr. Pepper came offering the glory of supporting the Administration. Mr. Pinchot offered the fierce pleasure of fighting for bone-dry prohibition. Mr. Vare offered the most inspiring of beverages?beer and wine...
...final step was to be the exaction of President von Hindenburg's resignation, thus automatically causing a Monarchist Chancellor to assume the executive power, after which martial law would be declared on some pretext and an "emergency constitution" proclaimed, setting up a "regency" for the Hohenzollerns...
...Diego, Calif., a court martial dissolved itself and disappeared, leaving behind it the announcement that it had "adjourned to await the action of the convening authority...
...Conant, Assistant Professor of Architecture in the University, was appointed a Fellow for the purpose of making an authoritative set of drawings of three Romanesque churches of France. These are the Abbey Church of Cluny, the Church of St. Martin at Tours, and the Church of St. Martial at Limoges...