Word: modell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Most potent of those who moved from North China to Nanking last week was Ihe estimable Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province...
Newly-elected Premier Maniu of Roumania, in taking America, the golden goose of Europe, as his model for the reorganization of his country, has the eyes of the world upon him. His task is likely to be an irritating one, for when he accomplishes his proposed removal of obnoxious taxes on foreign trade and foreign capital, the holding of "fair elections," and provisions for a clean government, he will already have outstripped his model. By strict adherence to it, he can do no more than develop tariff battles, intervention policies, brass-knuckled good-will trips, Smith-Vare disbarments...
...matched to a heroine, beautiful though near-sighted and bespectacled, passionately devoted to her children though they visit the pages but once, loyal to a faithless husband though she begs one of her many admirers to elope with her. Because she loved him, Lily Christine had married a smart model of English manhood, penniless gambler, cricketer, master of many mistresses. Lily Christine ignored these "pieces of nonsense," supplied her "old carthorse" husband with a constant friendship, and held the family together...
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