Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said body of international law shall declare war a crime and no longer recognize, in any way or at any time, war as a legitimate institution for the settlement of international disputes. In other words, if war comes, it must be without the shield or sanction of law, but in violation of it as a piracy, or slavery, or peonage or murder...
...urged "Up and at 'em!" Upon the first appearance of a real, live Soviet ambassador, the streets of Paris rang with cries of "Vivent Ies soviets!" No wonder French Republicans repeat the Arab fable of the camel which, when granted leave to stick his head inside the hut to shield it from the cold, grew insolent and dispossessed the owner altogether...
...Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spoke at Cincinnati two weeks after his fellow lawyer, Secretary of State Hughes, whom he called "the clever lawyer who falls back on methodical ignorance-to shield his client, President Coolidge." Mr. Colby then proceeded into the stormy state of Indiana to awaken echos that had just been stirred by his other fellow lawyer, John W. Davis...
...morale of a school has fallen to such a point that its directors are no longer disturbed by the necessarily poor showing of its graduates in college examinations, it is hardly probable that they will be aroused to reformatory efforts by the possibility of winning an appropriately designed metal shield. The prestige accompanying the award will of course be great, but no greater than it has been in past years with or without the physical emblem of high scholarship...
...insist that the best friends of the Constitution are those who dared to voice their protest when that instrument, ordained to give perpetuity to the immortal declaration 'conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,' is invoked as a shield for corrupt and law less wealth and for the oppression of the liberties of the people in the exercise of their inalienable rights...