Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even acts of supreme violence lose their power to shock when repeated a sufficient number of times at a sufficient distance. Ever since the French League Mandate was established over Syria (1922) the rebellious Druses and other savage natives have been selling their lives dearly almost daily in guerilla attacks upon the French Army of Occupation. For eight months the French garrison at Damascus has bombarded that city or its environs almost nightly (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). Scarcely a morning dawns that French airplanes do not drone aloft to release bombs. At Aleppo, Horns, Hama, Seraand, Suedia and Salkhad...
...Primo's scalp again." They meant, of course, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. He had, it was reported, lent the weight of his notorious influence to a band of his henchmen, who counted on marching from Barcelona to Madrid and Power-even as Dictator Primo made exactly that same "march à la Mussolini" (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). The active leaders of the revolt were 18 generals and a round dozen of Liberal and Communist politicians. General Aguilera, onetime Minister of War, was named as field generalissimo of the movement...
...already in jail for participating in an unsuccessful revolution. From his cell he sent forth a manuscript whose seering verses he ordered printed in red ink. He called it Iras Santas (Sacred Furies). Peru was staggered by the sheer brutal power of this song of vengeance, this envenomed protest against civilization and its shams. José, bounding from his cell into the apogee of fame, became in his own words "the singer of America, a poet aboriginal and wild...
...part man, that peopled the younger earth. They swarmed at the hips of Zeus and between the legs of his throne, executed by Panaeus, nephew and assistant of Phidias. Scholars have hinted that the figure owed its fame to these entertaining adornments, but Roman writers commented on the power, at once placid and stern, a sort of deep pagan content, that lived in the head. Here was no irritable Roman Jove, waiting at the least vexation to scatter thunderbolts in all directions like sparklers, but a Grecian gentleman, portentous as a hill, poised serenely as a wave...
...General Gouraud looking on, the canvas was lifted from Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's* inspired masterpiece. The statue stands 300 ft. out in the harbor on a 70-ft. masonry pillar. The eagle has a tensile wingspread of 35 ft. The Bretons gazed in wonder at the power and grace of Mrs. Whitney's work...