Word: powderly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Around the Caribbean and down the whole continent south of it lies an empire which the U. S. would never want to conquer by shrapnel, but which it never will conquer by checkbooks and sales talk so long as there is any trace of powder in the air. The pertinacity of a Sandino in Nicaragua (see p. 16) is momentarily embarrassing. The alleged economic offensive of European industrialists?British, German, Belgian?is momentarily disturbing. But both of these developments merely serve to emphasize the business wisdom of the President's trip. Both enhance the opportunity he has created to interpret...
Anticipating critics who would say that to let the War Department place "educational" orders would swamp the War Department with demands for patronage, Secretary Davis referred again to the existing shortage of reserve munitions. Moreover, he pointed out that powder grows old. Small-arm ammunition lives 10 years; artillery shells, 20 years. Also, the War Department has many a new type of gun which it wants to try out. Requests for orders would come no faster than the War Department needs arise. No question of profiteering would enter because the orders would be on such a small scale...
...goodbye, but that does not mean that I shall become useless. I hope still to continue to serve my country. Heretofore I have given my heart to the soldier boys, but now I must look after the girls-if they behave themselves and don't smoke or powder their noses-for you know I am looking for a contralto to whom to pass on my work...
...Story: Of all human desires none find more panders than the desire to deceive, to make a false effect. For those who are unbeautiful, chemists have always been able to find, in paint and rouge, a cunning disguise; powder has permitted the dirty to remain unwashed and undetected; wigs are for those who can grow no hair; magicians, incapable of miracles, can conjure up an appearance of supernatural; many a pretentious coping is built, as i to protect the high rooms of some splendid mansion, along an untenanted rood; the vase with one broken handle faces the world with...
...York has summoned from Colgate University a scholar whose specialty is the study of noise, to tell its inhabitants the worst about their city streets and subways. He finds that the streets of New York are less noisy than those of Chicago, whether because silent powder is not used in Chicago guns he does not say; but the roar of the New York subways, equal to that of an airplane motor in the protected ears of an aviator, exposes New Yorkers to a greater volume of should than that in any other city. As to Boston, he says that...