Word: paean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the naval conference first came into being, the opinion was generally prevalent that disarmament would take place. It was wildly suggested that war might even be abolished altogether. In the midst of the journalistic paean of praise that followed, Bernard Shaw was heard to remark that the only thing that the conference would determine would be whether the next war would be fought with twelve or eighteen inch guns. Perhaps the great dramatist had seen too many post-war scraps of paper scattered before the wind of national feeling and industrial competition...