Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...someone to take power and govern for them, and when I stepped up and said I would do it, the people of Italy sighed a sigh work, leaving me and my council to attend to the common business. If I don't do it, the Italians will get rid of me, but they will take on another dictator. Italy is a dictatorship for a long time to come, and the reason is that the Italians prefer that kind of government...
...issue at once political, moral, and social, in the deepest meaning of these words. It is an issue on which the whole future of our civilization, the whole future of the material and intellectual and spiritual progress of mankind depends. This issue is whether we can rid ourselves of war. If we can, our civilization will survive. If we cannot, our civilization will survive. If we cannot, our civilization is inevitably doomed, and will take its place with the perished glories of Nineveh, of Luxor and of Rome...
...rid ourselves of war? I am convinced we can, if we will but set about it with an unbending resolution to achieve our end. The forces on our side are strong: the human instinct of cooperation, the universal desire for equal justice, the passionate hatred of every people in the world for the barbarous arbitrament of the sword. They are forces which are seeking for expression; forces which will need to be mobilized to control the policy of the government of every country...
...Midi, Paris journal, says: " It is a pity the Turks did not ask the Americans to rebuild the Tower of Babel, because the Americans are so good at skyscrapers." Pertinax in the Echo de Paris remarks that "the Chester program is only a means of getting rid of the concessions granted to the French and British." It seems that the Turks, adepts at procrastination, have been playing for time until the psychological moment arrived to ratify the Chester Concessions. It arrived; and the Turks will go back to Lausanne stronger than ever. The Turkish move has, however, revealed Lord Curzon...
...always seen with legal eyes as a good republican. A storm is breaking above his head and, republican or monarchist, he is playing a dangerous game. As Henry II of England once said of Thomas a Becket, Germany now says of General Ludendorff: "Will no one rid me of this troublesome...