Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord Birkenhead-typical of his youth as a smart lawyer named F. E. Smith-were flatly contradicted by Dictator Mussolini thus: "The oft-repeated platitude that somewhere in every strong man there is the influence of a woman, is a woven fancy. That there is a feminine 'power behind the throne' is a flimsy tissue of the imagination. No woman ever has been the dominant influence in a strong man's life...
Soon obliging Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, beloved and industriously charitable wife of the Prime Minister, produced a broadly political and deeply feminine opinion: "A woman Labor leader at Bournemouth declared, the other day, that the Socialist party is out for power. I fancy that we Conservative women want something which is higher than power. We want peace and goodwill, and we shall never get it from a party that preaches power and warfare...
...with easy gradients should be built over the Pyrenees, but not one was ever more than well begun. The grades on the new Samport railway are too steep for trains ever to be served by steam locomotives but the giant electrics which have been installed are operated by free power shrewdly filched by turbines from tumbling Pyrenean waterfalls and foaming streams...
...skippers was Capt. Norman Ross, 58, of the Zodiac. As a child he began to fish off Gloucester, Mass., and still prefers to be known as a fisherman rather than a racing skipper. He owns one of the four schooners in Gloucester that scorn to use motor power...
...till he has proved himself worthy of his father's company does the old stag lead Bambi to a solitary haunt, and teach him the necessity of aloneness. He shows him a poacher lying foolishly shot to the ground, forces Bambi to realize that man is not all-powerful, as fawns and silly does suppose, but that there must be a higher power over...