Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Albert Weisbord* has contributed many a stormy chapter. And when he advanced on New Bedford to form the Textile Mills Committee, the heads of the old unions were disturbed. Weisbord's ideas were of violence and force, parades and riots. Public sympathy, most surprisingly with the strikers, might well be destroyed by violent methods...
...understand . . . that the Governor [Alfred E. Smith] in casting those votes against those reform bills [touching gambling and the facilities for prostitution] might honestly have felt that the bills were unconstitutional or were not enforceable or infringed on personal liberty or encouraged police blackmail...
...valet was labeled "Peek." The damsel, who might have been either weeping or sleeping, was labeled "Farm Vote." The departing gallant wore a haughty "G. O. P." label. The dubious gallant bore an unmistakable resemblance to Nominee Smith, and to make certainty certain, Cartoonist Homer Speltz of the Gopher Prairie, Wha.,* Clarion had labeled the figure...
...queer way of practicing diplomacy is to sign an agreement, keep the text secret, and then create a furore in the international press by openly alluding in provocative, general terms to what has been agreed. Such a course might be christened "Secropen Diplomacy." Such was the course steered, last week, by British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand. They sent a résumé of their secret agreement to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, who was not authorized to divulge its text...
...British navy might be called "sea-defensive," since no modern navy can stomach the description "offensive...