Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all wives, a measure of disillusionment came, last week, to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the British Prime Minister. Her husband's rise to head the State may well have seemed to her, pious, devoted, the visible workings of the Higher Power. Tenderhearted, she learned, last week, that some 62 miners had been entombed during the night at Cwm† Wales, by a mine explosion. Soon Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin were speeding to Cwm by motor. If the State could further the entrapped miners' rescue in any way, the presence of Premier Baldwin guaranteed every...
...Baldwin screamed. Was her conviction shattered then, perhaps -her belief in Mr. Baldwin as an agent of the Higher Power? She paled. Then Mr. Baldwin took his pipe out of his mouth, nodded to his chauffeur. The starter buzzed, the engine roared. At a blast from the limousine's powerful siren horn the crowd wavered. "Come on! Down them!!" shouted some voices; but the limousine broke through as one young miner shouted "Back to your hogs, Baldwin!* You're lucky to get away...
...power behind the throne? No, woman is not that. No great man has ever been inspired to greatness by a woman's unseen power...
...internal politics, yet speaking with his wonted fire, Comrade Trotzky said: "The lands bordering the Pacific will be the scene of the world's most important events. Europe does not relish this any more than it relishes the fact that the United States has become the most dominant power in the world, expanding northward through Canada and southward through Nicaragua...
Peroration. Through an interpreter M. Kerensky, who speaks no English, said: "I do not think the agents of Soviet Russia are fomenting trouble in Mexico or elsewhere in foreign countries. They lack the power to do so. ... I, myself, never think of a return to power. My episode is over. But I am continuing and will continue until the last the struggle for human freedom. . . .* Russians must settle their own internal affairs...