Word: muste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweated with pick and shovel, earlier in the week, uprooting all the police "safety islands" in the boulevards along which the cortege would pass. On his last ride the supreme generalissimo must swerve neither to right nor left, and so the ugly "islands" were uprooted, and straight down the centre of the long ribbons of asphalt passed Ferdinand Foch...
...Paris!" cried Foch when he assumed supreme command, "Paris has nothing to do with this matter! Paris is far away. We must stop the Germans where they are. We have only to say 'They shall not pass!' and they will not pass. . . . Three-fourths of the battle is won when the men know they are not going to retreat...
...said the General, almost as affected as the white-faced cadet before him, "you must be a good soldier, a husband to your mother, and a father to your sister...
...would commit the fledgling, two-year-old Nationalist Government to pour out every year, for public works alone, a treasure half as large as the stupendous annual tribute which the Great Powers hope to wring from Germany in Reparations. China would spend $250,000,000 each year, while Germany must pay between $400,000,000 and $600,000,000 annually, depending on the decision of J. P. Morgan and others now in Paris...
Potter Poor's method is Persian and difficult. Known today as "under-glaze decoration," his method involves metallic oxide colors which must fuse with a glaze fully to reveal their tones. Most pottery methods involve repeated firings, which allow plenty of time for the potter to decorate and redecorate if he is not satisfied. Not so with the oldtime Persians, and Potter Poor. He must do his decorating swiftly and surely, and only once, for the glaze must quickly follow and the piece be fired without delay...