Word: smite
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...housewife whose husband comes a bit unsteadily home point at him the finger of scorn, for if he has been drinking German wine he has done a patriotic duty and he may well smite his breast and proudly assert the fact." '"Formerly all true Germans were called upon to lay down their lives upon the field of battle, which they gladly did. Today I call upon every patriot to drink more wine...
...Golden Cocoon. This is another error. It is a political story about a girl with a suspicious past which is about to rise up and smite her legislative husband on the eve of election day. It is played by Helene Chadwick and solved with a pistol shot...
President Lowell took as his text Psalm CXXI:6: "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night...
...which they temporarily reside can curse in Italian without offending the most delicate native sense. It has been often demonstrated that the most musical word in the English language to foreigners is "cellar-door." In the same way, the hasty remarks of Italian wheelbarrow pushers and ditch-diggers smite the ear only as poetical rhapsodies in a foreign tongue...
...knelt, approached the throne, accompanied by two attendants holding flabelli-great ostrich-feather fans-on either side of his head. The Pope prayed, arose and proceeded up the steps leading to the Holy Door. Someone handed him his studded gold hammer (TIME, Dec. 22). He raised his hand to smite...