Word: potently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raskob. Potent in the Smith background, financially, psychologically, is John Jacob Raskob, vice president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., chairman of the finance committee of the General Motors Corp., "biggest U. S. business man." Mr. Raskob was one of Mrs. Smith's escort home from Houston. Last week Mr. Raskob's son, William F. Raskob II, was killed in a motor smash. Nominee Smith made straight for Centerville, Md., and attended the funeral at the Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church. Beside Nominee Smith walked Mr. & Mrs. Pierre du Pont...
Mightily of a twitter were the twelve warlike princes of Yemen and their potent father, the Imam Yahya ben Muhammad ben Hamid al Din. Over coffee brewed from the peerless beans of Menakha, and with the eight gates of the Imam's capital barred for the night, a conference took place in deadly secrecy between Plenipotentiary and Potentate...
...April. They recalled that Amir Amanullah, Khan of Afghanistan, has invited to a Pan-Asiatic Parley at Kabul, Afghanistan, next November, delegates from the nationalist parties of India and Egypt, and representatives of the nationalist governments of Persia and Turkey, together with emissaries from all the Sultans, Imams and potent Sheiks* of Arabia...
Overhead droned and Doomed in salute 100 naval aircraft. Slipped and slithered beneath the waves a goodly representation of the 98 submarines built or building, which ensure the safety of France from her friends, since the navies of her enemies have been virtually destroyed. Most potent of the new French surface ships are the cruisers Duquesne and Tourville, each of 10,000 tons, and capable of hurtling toward an enemy at 40 miles an hour...
Slayer's Boast. Prince Felix Youssoupov has written autobiographically that he offered Rasputin poisoned wine, after first pretending to take a sip himself. When the Debauchee's potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...