Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact he prefers her to the Roumanian outfit. Now she's probably representative of a lot of that bunch down there. Good fellows who like a little war once in a while, not a big war with a bunch of American cruisers, but a little war with knives and pawn shop pistols! No wonder they get sore at having to tell their family secrets to the marines...
...populace, because he was a foreigner. The European troops which supported him were detested by the natives. In the summer of 1886 Napoleon III decided to withdraw his forces. Maximilian was being deserted by the man who had brought him to his position and was using him as a pawn. His wife appealed to the emperor of the French to save her husband; he refused. She went, then, on an appeal to the Pope, but here also she was unsuccessful...
Perhaps pragmatism is to be the essential philosophy of the western world. Surely materialism itself is not far removed from this science which must swing back to man, which cannot direct itself into the unknown for the pleasure and splendor of the voyage Most successful adventures have had the pawn shop behind them, but with the pawn shop forgotten...
Wilson. "The Western Powers scornfully reproached Mr. Wilson with being misled by German evasions . . . [Germans] looked upon him as a pawn of the English. . . . As neophyte in the highest office in the Republic, he made obvious mistakes. . . . But it must be remembered that he felt and thought-not only spoke-as no other government head had done before...
...significance of this is obvious. In real life, the "rival stage", a knowledge of chess is necessary before you can play the game. But in the world of illusions, in the life of the theatre you can play chess without knowing the difference between a king and a pawn. To play a game of chess on the stage all one has to do is to go through the motions of playing. Thus by this one subtle phrase the author takes us from one plane of reality to another...