Word: scylla
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...months or years be faced with the alternative of using force or losing their foothold in the country. In that case Soviet Russia would be ready to step into their place, posing as the friend of China. The course of Chinese diplomacy at the coming conference will lie between Scylla and Charybdis...
...forty years as president of Harvard Mr. Eliot guided and built up the University. He brought scholarship out between the Scylla of dilettantism and the Charybdis of scornful indifference into its present healthy state. And the achievement was so notable that its influence spread like ripples on water through the whole educational system of the country. But education has not been all. He has made himself the foremost exponent of the Open Shop, he has written books, he has been of influence upon public opinion in many state questions. It is difficult to call to mind any problem...
...make the world safe for democracy", Europe is tottering between the dictatorship of the proletariat in the person of Lenin and the dictatorship of the strong man in the persons of Mussolini and Primo Rivera, while German democracy steers a narrow course, apparently doomed to failure, between the Scylla of hungry reds and the Charybdis of angry nationalists. Meanwhile on the Turkish question and to a lesser extent in the problem of the Ruhr, France and England have become so callous to changing positions, that it occasioned only little surprise when a recent French Yellow Book was filled with quotations...
Superficially the crew situation may appear dismal. Admittedly the present system of control by the Rowing Committee puts a coach between Scylla and Charybdis. And obviously, to all who watched Saturday's race between University and Freshman crews, the Freshmen were distinctly better. But there are factors to be considered, which the layman, who demands not form but "guts", should understand before condemning this year's crew as hopeless...
...cool determination to direct the nation's affairs according to our well-tested traditions. No short cuts, no untried methods, no radical steps will mark the term of the Republican party. "With malice toward none, with charity for all," we shall endeavor of steer a straight course between the Scylla of "splendid isolation" and the Charybdis of "entangling alliances." It is with faith in our inheritance and belief in the ability of the American people to press onward toward the mark of their high calling that President Harding takes up the reins of government...