Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tale might be likened to a poplar with its clinging shoots, where it could have been made an oak with spreading branches. The teller has rather sought to show how marvellously romance, like a flag-pole, can cleave space than bow completely life can fulfill, clothe, and likewise protect itself, with fit and simple foliage...
These statements by the U. S. Minister were so different from what the normal Englishman likes to believe, that some few London papers came out in a healthy pox and said that, as everyone knows, Great Britain does what she does in Egypt to protect the main artery of her commerce, the Suez Canal, and will continue to do so indefinitely...
...getting the troops he sought. Marine Commander-in-China General Smedley Darlington Butler rushed north from Shanghai, landed two troop ships carrying 1,900 U. S. marines at Tientsin, and personally hurried up to confer with Mr. MacMurray at Peking. Meanwhile the British and French were rushing troops to protect their legations at Peking, and observers thought that only the very greatest tenacity on the part of U. S. President Coolidge would prevent the U. S. Administration from being swept into the policy long advocated by Minister MacMurray: armed intervention cooperating with Great Britain and other Great Powers...
Shantung Seized. Perhaps the most striking single event of the week in China was the sending of 2,000 Japanese troops to Tsingtao (Shantung), where, it was announced they will "protect Japanese lives and property." Observers thought it not unlikely that the post World War claims of Japan to Shantung, a rich province, will now be permanently revived...
...much admire (TIME, April 25) tell you: "Eighty soldiers mutinied at Lancaster, Pa., in June, 1783. They marched on Philadelphia and appeared in front of the State House where Congress was in session. Congress called on the Executive Council of Pennsylvania, meeting in the same building, for protection, but the Council was afraid to bring out the militia, as it was thought that the militia might join the mutineers. The soldiers declared that they wanted their pay and intended to take it from the treasury. They pointed their guns at the Congressional windows but did not fire them. Congress sent...