Word: militaristically
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...only for an afternoon, should serve a purpose, totally distinct from any display of well-drilled soldiers in time to martial music. Their quiet appearance is an excellent antidote to the ranting extremists so common in this country. The pacifist, alarmed at the rattle of sabres, and the jingoistic militarist, suffering under an acute attack of super-patriotism, both fade rather ridiculously into an obscure wave of asinine jabbering...
Without waiting for emergency, President Doumergue called on Weygand last week, appointed him Chief of the French Army General Staff, actual head of the army. The promotion of Weygand, strict disciplinarian, frank militarist, was popular with all but Liberals and Socialists. Wrote the Socialist Le Peuple...
...Shuddered at the pacifism of the Labor Government as militarist Baron Middleton challenged "The British Army has now fallen below its strength in 1895 . . . and yet . . . and yet since 1895 we have taken over the control of the Sudan and accepted the mandates of Palestine and Mesopotamia" (called "Irak" by younger...
...catafalque, raised high above the speaker's tribune in the Reichstag, as rigidly motionless as the great dreary candles. Near was a very showy wreath blazoned with a crown and W from onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Next day Stresemann was buried with peaceful pomp. Not a militarist, there was not a uniformed soldier in his cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung...
...Three Americans, three Hungarians, three Russians and an Italian will next year take seats left vacant by ten men in the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. One of them, First 'Cellist Alfred Wallenstein, descends from the famed militarist immortalized by Schiller...