Word: perish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page 386 a succinct paragraph sweetly declares that to present the next forty years in which Talleyrand was Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Consulate; during the Empire; at Vienna; and under Louis XVIII;- "Would entail the survey of the history of France and Europe during the period", Perish the thought! And let us by all means make haste and be off in the remaining 125 pages to a consideration of the exciting details of Talleyrand's liason and marriage with Madame Grande, the very beautiful, albeit mildly illiterate, daughter of a French official at Tranquebar in India...
...opposition to communism and the principle of class struggle. A very whole some negative plank is that which aims to kill the provincial quarrels and national divisions. The new patriotism aims to abolish civil war, banditry, military chiefs and war lords, in order to preserve the people before they perish...
...question is one of money, and until the United States-is able to support an army of sufficient size, until the Administration is aroused to the real need, nothing can be done and we shall in the meantime continue to perish by degrees." When these words reached Washington, D. C., it happened that Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis was away and also Assistant Secretary of War Hanford MacNider. The Acting Secretary of War was, for the moment, Brigadier General Briant Harris Wells, Deputy Chief of Staff. Perhaps it was to save General Wells the embarrassment of giving an order...
...says himself, "No one can love nature more than I". His works, in consequence, have the elemental force and variety of natural phenomena. With what dramatic power does he at times take us in his arms, hurl us down, and stamp upon us--"Listen to me, base mortal, or perish." And what a saving grace is his gift of humor, just as important in art as in daily life. Beethoven never tears a passion to tatters, never protests too much, can be serious and truly impressive without becoming solemn or pontificial. Before Beethoven, music had been practically limited...
...that can wait for the afternoon. In the morning, literature seems to hold most attractions. In Harvard 2 at 10 o'clock for example--perish the thought of arising before then--Professor Murdock will speak on American poetry of the period from 1870 to 1900, just when poets in this country were turning from Emerson and Longfellow and entering what for want of a better term can be called the modern phase. At the same hour incidently, Professor Baxter will speak on. "The United States and International Arbitration" a subject which has to say the least, great possibilities. This lecture...