Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous message at the opening of the 2nd Battle of the Marne, July 1918, which marked the turning point of the war, concluding with the words: 'We are going to counter-attack.' " The Bullard valor is concealed beneath a mild, diminutive exterior. Yet the soldierly Bullard conscience might serve as a model for all the retired military, so often and so strongly does it move its possessor to issue grave warnings to all good citizens against the insidious dangers of peace talk and unpreparedness...
...speeches which their author is persuaded to make before patriotic meetings or conventions. One came last week, in a Bullard speech at a luncheon of the Hardware, Metals and Allied Trades in Manhattan. With the aid of a map, Major-General Bullard showed quickly how the U. S. might be captured by an invader once New York had fallen, as it must fall if potent defenses are not maintained. Knowing that an oldtime war-dog's growling is often interpreted as senile jingoism, and to give his hardware-headed hearers an indisputably sound reason for wanting to see their...
Since the U. S. is not a League member state, there next arose the delicate question of how Aristide Briand might properly convey the good news from Bolivia to Frank Billings Kellogg. As French Foreign Minister, M. Briand could have addressed Mr. Kellogg in his capacity of Secretary of State; but as chairman of the League Council, M. Briand could not so address...
...Sweden, King Alfonso had greatly (perhaps politely) praised a thin, hard, and nearly tasteless rye bread or biscuit, famed in Sweden as knaeckebroed. Shrewdly a Swedish baker approached the admiral of the Principe Alfonso. "Might not His Majesty like a box of knaeckebroed to take home with him?" The Admiral thought he might...
...Broun . . . observed of the performance . . . that I had given the impression, in the most poignant moment of the drama, of a barge woman. What is the explanation of it all? I don't know. After looking into my own mind, I have sometimes wondered if perhaps the accusations might not be laid to the critic himself...