Word: sinkings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lithuania by force of arms, seeing that Poland is on the League of Nations Council and that Lithuania is also a member. Our country has little over two millions population- small, as compared to Poland's 29,000,000, but in such an event the whole nation would sink its differences and stand shoulder to shoulder, and I know that the peasantry would fly to arms to repel the invader." When news of Pilsudski's charges reached Kovno, harassed Premier Valdemaras promptly denied that Lithuanian troops had been mobilized against Poland, then ordered his bags packed...
...constituents. These considerations, however, avail nothing with those who, having found liquor in the Mecca of the dry, feel that to telephone Mr. Volstead would be the cream of the jest. He must by now have tested the meaning of the poet who mentioned the repose of those who sink to rest by all their country's wishes blessed; and among the long list of those who consider themselves the chief sufferers from Prohibition, the name of Andrew J. Volstead should take high, if not the highest, rank...
When authors sink to speaking tours and find themselves destitute of topics they invariably seize upon the subject of censorship. And when censorship is mentioned Boston automatically becomes the center of the discussion. Walter Prichard Eaton, appearing before the Western Massachusetts Library Club, is the latest to take up the cudgels...
...Cabinet we considered Wilson's answer to the Boche. It really is a complete usurpation of the power of negotiation. He practically ignores us and the French. He won't treat with the Hohenzollerns?thus making sure of Bolshevism. He won't treat as long as the Boches sink ships and have other frightfulness. And he is sending a separate letter to Austria. And all this without consultation with his allies. We discussed all this, and I was strongly of opinion that we should go over to Paris at once and register a note to Wilson putting...
...upperclassman is doomed to comparative insignificance it is because he welcomes it, being glad to sink into his surroundings and show that he belongs there. He is in good company, and once the usual questions have been exchanged about the vacation just over, the ground is cleared. The year begins quietly. It comes in like a lamb...